Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Zane Grey

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Jack Vance

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

Dick Bruna

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

John Sladek

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Jhumpa Lahiri

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

Rudolf Hiferding

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

Barbara Deming

But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of punishment at the same time.

Dick Bruna

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Robert Foster Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Rumi

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

Tony Hoare

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

Steve Albini

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Stanley Baldwin

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.