Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

Virginia Woolf

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Robertson Davies

My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.

William Faulkner

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

Wole Soyinka

I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

Wilson Mizner

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

Wes Craven

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.

Viktor Korchnoi

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a skeleton in every house.

Richard Dawkins

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

Richard Ayoade

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

Rose McGowan

It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.

Roger Avary

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

William Zinsser

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

William Lyon Phelps

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Woody Allen

Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts.

Woody Allen

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

Woody Allen

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.