Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Debby Ryan

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

David Starr Jordan

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

Confucius

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Confucius

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Andrew Lang

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Anne Rice

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

David Coverdale

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

David Coverdale

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

David Coverdale

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

David Antin

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Archuleta

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

Darren Criss

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Darren Criss

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Alberto Manguel

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail

Alfred Kazin

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Aldous Huxley

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aldous Huxley

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.