Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.

Rumi

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Roy H. Williams

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Tim O'Brien

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Thomas Wilson

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Margaret Atwood

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Mona Simpson

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Miranda Cosgrove

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Ted Naifeh

A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Randall Munroe

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Chanakya

There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.

John Roehrig

There's always a tendency to get comfortable with the fact that this disease is out there, especially if you live in a place where you've had West Nile for four or five years and never been infected.