Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Herrick

A SWEET disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness : A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction : An erring lace which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher : A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbons to flow confusedly : A winning wave (deserving note) In the tempestuous petticoat : A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility : Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

Simon Helberg

There's no real escape from the work, but in some ways, if you're as obsessive as I am, it's a sweet little thing we've figured out. You bring your work home and you work 24 hours a day, but it's good.

Remy de Gourmont

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

Robert A. Heinlein

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

Ring Lardner

Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you

Sri Chinmoy

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

Sophia Loren

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.

Sonia Rykiel

I hate the word feminine! I mean, there is a woman and a man and when I say "woman" it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! Feminine makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet: I don't like that!

Rudolf Bing

Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm... she had dimples of iron.

Thomas Carlyle

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Tim O'Brien

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

Ville Valo

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

Victor Hugo

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Stephenie Meyer

Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.

Rick Riordan

You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare this is stupid.

Ron White

You can't fix stupid.

Scott Westerfeld

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

Robert Burns

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Andrew Motion

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Aleksandar Hemon

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Aleksandar Hemon

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Alberto Moravia

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

Alberto Moravia

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Manguel

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.