Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Claire Danes

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Clarence Darrow

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

David Caruso

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

Anthony Holden

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Tony Robbins

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Tony Robbins

Quality questions create a quality life.

Tony Robbins

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Susan Orlean

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

Sonia Johnson

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Tim Allen

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

Stella Adler

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

Thomas Harris

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

Tom Hanks

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Sumner Redstone

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in

Randy Pausch

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Schoolboy Q

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

Seth Rogen

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

Sebastian Faulks

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

Tobey Maguire

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

Mercedes Lackey

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos) Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)