Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

My weapon is literature

Chinua Achebe

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

Edward Hirsch

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

David Hume

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Audre Lorde

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Kurt Vonnegut

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Bill O'Reilly

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Carlos Fuentes

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Chris Bauer

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

Chris Brown

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be,

China Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

Edward Hopper

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Edith Stein

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Eric Lander

The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

Paul Wolfowitz

This is a man who takes pride and pleasure in having killed thousands of innocent humans beings. And it confirms everything we've known about him already, ... This Week.

Lee Tien

This may be appropriate for cattle, pets or packages, but for humans it is a very different issue.

Yoav Gilad

The big question is why are humans so different?

Rita Ora

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.