Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.

Rudyard Kipling

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Lamar Alexander

Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

Jon Meacham

There is nothing new under the sun.

Mike Quade

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

Jude Law

You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.

Mark Batterson

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

Ned Beauman

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

Seth

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

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.

Vincente Minnelli

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

Woody Guthrie

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

Vincente Minnelli

I learn new things all the time.

Urs Fischer

You basically only discover a new thing once.

Olivier Megaton

I like to discover new things.

Steve Ballmer

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.