Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

William Golding

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.

William Shakespeare

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

Stephen King

he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls...

Stephen King

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

Sylvia Plath

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life's true face is the skull.

Louis L'Amour

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

Meshell Ndegeocello

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Vladimir Nabokov

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Chasity Rutjens

I just want to make sure it lasts me the rest of my life so I don't have to return to work.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Jonathan Tropper

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

Kenneth H. Cooper

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Kelley Armstrong

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

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.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Salman Rushdie

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

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different