Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Bryant H. McGill

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Anton Chekhov

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Brit Hume

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Roger Zelazny

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

Cassandra Clare

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

Amanda Lenhart

It debunks the myth of the tech-savvy boy,

Jonathan Galassi

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

Joseph Campbell

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

James Thurber

The unicorn is a mythical beast,

Paul Di Filippo

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Frank Herbert

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Jane Green

We're trying to debunk the myth that Orlando is just a teen heartthrob,