Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charles M. Schulz

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Akhenaton

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Akira Kurosawa

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

Akio Morita

Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Austin Grossman

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.