Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Dionne Warwick

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Kevin Sorbo

I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

Madonna Ciccone

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

Lorrie Moore

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brad Meltzer

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Jane D. Hull

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Cameron Russell

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

Jane Goodall

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Bob Dylan

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?