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.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Dweezil Zappa

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Thomas Reid

A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.

Tony Hsieh

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Ridley Scott

I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Stephen Greenblatt

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

Viktor E. Frankl

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

John Milton

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Michel de Montaigne

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Alfredo Griffin

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a pleasure being here.