Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William J. Clinton

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

Rodman Philbrick

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

William Cowper

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

Jacques Ellul

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.

Novalis

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Eli Pariser

Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

C. S. Lewis

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Victor Hugo

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

King Vidor

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Per Petterson

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.