Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Boyd Rice

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

C. S. Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Cesar Millan

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Charles Churchill

The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play.

Janet Reno

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit

Baltasar Gracian

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Anthony Trollope

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Demi Moore

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Diana Wynne Jones

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Daniel Handler

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Dan Stevens

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Janine Benyus

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Bobby Fischer

The Russians have fixed world chess.

Barry Eisler

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers high hardback margins essentially disappear.

Arthur Symons

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.