Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Penn

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

John Cummings

Right now, we can comfortably shelter about 257,000 residents on island. Now when we talk about shelter space, we plan for a 3-by-5 space, just enough for you to lie down and get in.

Atharva Veda

The women that lie upon couches and upon beds, and they that rest in litters, the women all that exhale sweet fragrance, do we put to sleep.

Matt Millen

You can tell people the truth and everyone thinks you're lying, and you can lie and everyone thinks you're telling the truth.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Heather Ross

She (Victoria) can't lie to save her life. She takes responsibility for everything she does.

Bill Clinton

If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.

Nathaniel Smith

He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her

Dan Castellaneta

Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.