Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William J. Clinton

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

Sarah Dessen

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Sandra Bullock

It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Richard Jenkins

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Richelle Mead

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

William S. Burroughs

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

William J. H. Boetcker

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,

Richard Rorty

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Samuel Richardson

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.