Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Amy Lowell

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

Anderson Cooper

The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.