Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. James

I don't know my situation right now. I'll find out when I get to Phoenix or when I get back from Phoenix.

River Phoenix

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Billy Corgan

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Hunter S. Thompson

If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

Dan Fogelberg

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Troy Glaus

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

Sam Altman

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Louis Pasteur

God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

Emile M. Cioran

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Paulo Coelho

Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

Leo Tolstoy

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Sean Penn

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Paul Theroux

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

Emma Goldman

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.