Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Zane Grey

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Dick Bruna

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

John Sladek

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Dick Bruna

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

Walter Lord

Just finding it, and as far as that went, I spent a good part of my life enjoying the study of the ship, ever since I was a little kid.

Shelby Foote

Loneliness is one of the best things in the world for you. You do something about it: read, for instance, all kind of things, make friends.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Amos Oz

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Amos Oz

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Andre Gide

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Anatole France

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

John Mancini

You can get pretty much any piece in any wood, in any stain.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Mike Stack

This is just a piece of tin, a medal. But at least we have something.

Mark Recchi

I want to be a piece of the puzzle on a winning club.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

It was a piece of stupidity on my part,

Geoffrey Gilmore

Not at all. Not one piece of me would have said that at any level.

Johann Georg Hamann

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Ambrose Bierce

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Angelo Scola

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Andre Gide

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Luis Figo

We'll give them the respect we give all our adversaries, but we are also sure of our own capabilities.

Richard Bach

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.