Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Lamy

These conversions are simple notionally, but there is a lot of devil in the detail.

Desiderius Erasmus

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Bronson Arroyo

The reason I took a discount is because I love playing here and I want to stay here my whole career. They (agents) worried that I would be traded to a small-market team like the Royals or Devil Rays.

Cotton Mather

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Anne Rice

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

Daniel Webster

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will;

Ambrose Bierce

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

Albert Brooks

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

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.

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.

Amos Oz

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

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Robbins

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

Jeff Daniels

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

George Steiner

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Haley Joel Osment

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.