Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Chubby Checker

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

E. F. Schumacher

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

Richard Bach

Hate is love without enough data.

Rita Mae Brown

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

Rene Rivkin

I hate weekends because there is no stock market

Rene Magritte

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Rene Descartes

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

Thomas S. Monson

Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by a never-ending quest for joy amidst the thrills of sensation and vice. Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

E. L. James

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

Douglas MacArthur

The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.

Donna Leon

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

Donna Leon

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Donald Davis

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

Donald E. Westlake

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.