Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Rosenberg

His past and his feelings for the girl he's into are really important elements of the character. There's also the betrayal that he's gone through, and how he moves forward from that.

William Wordsworth

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Richard Russo

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Salman Rushdie

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

Winston Churchill

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Robert Graves

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

Wendell Berry

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

Vladimir Nabokov

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

Elliot Robinson

If you think of public assistance, it is in some level a large bank. We need to have a process to make sure fraud does not occur, and some people think they can get away with it. It's such a betrayal of the people who want to help out the community as a whole.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Virginia Woolf

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

William Wycherley

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

Rudolf Steiner

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

Wayne Dyer

As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.

Tony Parker

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is the true condition of human life.

Roberto Bolano

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

Sarah Dessen

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.