Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

William S. Burroughs

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

Will Durant

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

Vanessa Hudgens

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

Valerie Plame

Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Emily Dickinson

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Kenneth Oppel

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Pythagoras

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

June Jordan

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Georg Simmel

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Madame de Stael

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

Sanjay Dutt

Journalists think twice before striking a conversation with me. I don't know why. I try to make people feel as comfortable as possible.

Martin Wright

He just ran out in the middle of the conversation. I thought it was a fight,

Sam Hunt

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

Bob Watson

There is a heads-up in place. But there's no conversation with the clubs. It's the normal provisions in place for a situation like this, but we expect them to just play ball.

Dan Harris

His dad was a real confidant. He was a real Rock of Gibraltar. I think part of their conversation was (the bar) could be his destiny. But he was devoted to football. He has a passion for it. I'm glad he stuck with it.

Richard Dawkins

I'm not sure this conversation can go any further.

Billy Beane

I had a nice little conversation with him. He seems happy to be here, quick to smile.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'll have to have a conversation with the boss, and then we'll see.

Ron Rivera

I really enjoyed the conversation with Mr. (John) Shaw and Mr. (Jay) Zygmunt. I'm just really happy for the opportunity, and if anything else comes about, it'd be great. ... I guess the only thing I can do is just wait and see what happens.