Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavia E. Butler

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

John Lynch

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Glen Sather

Marek is a big, strong defenseman who adds a physical presence to our blue line. His size and skill will bolster our penalty-killing unit.

Jose Alvarado

Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up,

Paul Alderete

It doesn't sound like a lot. And it isn't a lot but it's six more cents and when you put it in perspective it adds up.

Andy Pazder

It does the Nationwide Tour a world of good to be in the world ranking system. It adds to the credibility.

Marianne Wolk

I think he adds substantial credibility to the combination; it makes people very optimistic that he will build a significant and multibillion-dollar company over time,

Bob Rae

I think he adds a lot of perspective to any discussions about the future of the country.

Kathy Martin

It creates problems for our residents in the south. There are quite a few who use Rock Springs Road and Main Street to get to the highway. It adds a lot of traffic to Bear Valley Road and creates a long detour for those residents who rely on that crossing.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Jack Chick

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

Atharva Veda

To death do I hand them over, with the fetters of death they have been bound. To the evil messengers of death do I lead them captive.

James Jones

Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion.

Simon McBurney

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

Anna Jameson

The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Al Gore

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Shaul Mofaz

If we don't have quiet, the terror organisations will not know quiet,

Grant Morrison

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Mahatma Gandhi

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.