Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Connery

Some age. Others mature.

George S. Patton

Battle... brings out all that is best.

Sally Ride

Weightless is a great equalizer.

Nicki Minaj

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Ayn Rand

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Stephen King

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Stephen King

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Stephen King

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Stephen King

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

Stephen King

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.