Famous Quotes & Sayings

China Mieville

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

David Brinkley

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

James Patterson

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

William Shakespeare

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

Kurt Vonnegut

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Kurt Vonnegut

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

Bill O'Reilly

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

Aaron Sorkin

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Parker

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Chris Burke

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Eddie Murphy

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I want to be different from anyone ever.

Charlie Munger

Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

Billy West

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Charles Dickens

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Charles Sturt

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Spurgeon

A good character is the best tombstone.

Charles Spurgeon

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Charles Spurgeon

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Alan Bennett

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

Chris Abani

You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Chogyam Trungpa

If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.