Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Patrick Rothfuss

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Lakhdar Brahimi

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

L. Neil Smith

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Lilly Pulitzer

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

P. J. O'Rourke

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

Jeanine Basinger

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Jim Cummings

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

Jesse Eisenberg

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

Grant Morrison

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic.

George H. W. Bush

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

Jim Butcher

I put the ick in magic.

Jim Butcher

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Jim Butcher

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

William Butler Yeats

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun....

Larry Gagosian

The sun never sets on my gallery.