Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Ayn Rand

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

Jamie Dimon

Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Craig Ferguson

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Bon Scott

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

Charles Spurgeon

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Brooke Burke

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

Rep. Detert

We have a problem in Florida and a lack of money generally prevents you from solving a problem. We have the money, we just have to think of creative solutions to solve the problem.

Kofi Annan

creative way of approaching the issue and you may wish to share it widely.

Robert Morgan

Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. It seems like the better we feed them, the more creative they are.

Donna Karan

Every problem has a creative solution.

Steven Levitan

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

Tim Berners-Lee

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

Starhawk

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

Skylar Grey

I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

Sissy Spacek

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Robert Frost

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

May Sarton

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

May Sarton

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

Plato

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Mencius

The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.