Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

There are no innocent bystanders ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Edna O'Brien

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Daniel Goleman

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Curtis LeMay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

Alice Sebold

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Sonia Sotomayor

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Richelle Mead

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Umberto Eco

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

William Sanderson

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

Robert Rubin

I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.