Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Kevin Sorbo

I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

Madonna Ciccone

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

Lorrie Moore

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Evelyn Waugh

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Chris Weitz

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Cameron Russell

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles K. Kao

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Anna Nicole Smith

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

Wayne Dyer

With our divine connection we are always in touch with the solutions we are seeking.

Marc Andreessen

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

Joel Osteen

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.