Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as "industrial action", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as "sleeping together

John Copeland

It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as ""industrial action"", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as ""sleeping together

George Pierce Baker

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Stephen Hunter

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Kenneth Koch

Here I was in my 20s, and life seemed to me so exciting and full of girls and gardens and steamships and drinks and tennis games and countries and cathedrals... I mean, it seemed absurd to be writing these drab, depressed little poems. I knew there were things like death and poverty and injustice, but they weren't everything.

Tom O'Neill

Historically, they've demonstrated a shocking lack of humor for people in such an absurd industry.

Guy Quaden

It is absurd to think that such an interest rate could kill growth.

Salman Rushdie

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Robert Brown

I have written three books on the soul, / Proving absurd all written hitherto, / And putting us to ignorance again.

Maggie Cheung

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

Graham Hawkes

Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

Graham Hancock

It's odd that invoking the possibility of alien influences should itself be a sign of madness. I don't see the need for it to explain history on earth, but I can't see any reason why the universe shouldn't be full of life.

Pablo Mastroeni

When he signed his contract for Miami, he went out and bought a minivan, put 20-inch rims on it and had an alien stuck in the back window, ... He dances to the beat of his own drum.

David Grinspoon

I was just so impressed with the diversity and inventiveness of the artwork submitted. To me, it bespeaks of a vast global awareness and excitement about imagining and exploring a neighboring world that is so like our own in some ways and so completely alien in others.

Warren Spector

I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

Terence

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Sorin Cerin

We can neither speak of superior nor inferior divinity, but only of divinity, because no divinity ever wished to be superior or inferior as true divinity is a part of man as the Man is a part of divinity and consequently, neither man nor divinity are alien to each other, but a family, a whole. This is why divinity cannot beat, nor torture. Divinity is neither hidden nor infamous as the man divinity deems to be like this, but only the emancipation and the destruction of the negative side of the individual divinity of the man, with which he contributed to the social divinity that was going in the wrong direction eventually lead to hiding the evil in man, so necessary otherwise in order to define and reference Good, but only for balancing Good and Evil and not for the balance to be overthrown by one of its elements.

Maisie Williams

In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

Luther Jackson

I think it's created quite a bit of anxiety.

Wayne Fairclough

I thought anxiety set in today, but we nullified their midfield and made it hard for them to play, and I thought we did a good job here today.

Pat Monroe

I think it's very anxiety-provoking to everybody involved. The sense of not knowing things leads to a degree of uncertainty. It's certainly not enjoyable to anybody going through this process -- kids, parents, staff.

Dante Hall

I don't believe I experience performance anxiety, maybe because I am used to it.

Roxanne McKee

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Ted Purdy

I know Tiger doesn't feel comfortable unless he's in the lead. Those of us who have not led all that many times, I think there's going to be some anxiety.

Jerome Forneris

The coaches are doing a great job with that, ... My job is to give him a little bit of the nuances of what he's going to see, some of the pre-snap reads and just some small things that give him an opportunity to be successful; just kind of ease that anxiety level as well.

Scott Johnson

A lot of my anxiety was returning to a class full of kids who had known me as one person and coming back as, what I felt, a different person.

Eric Tyson

You can't get caught up in the stock market's daily swings or gaining 100 points one day and losing 100 the next day. If you do, you're just going to end up suffering from painful anxiety attacks.

Jeresa Hren

History teaches us lessons. How come there are no Chinese in the valley now? They were all chased off.

Jimmy Johnson

I think when you're the points leader you want the season to be over right then and there, ... It doesn't matter how many races in the Chase you are, so from here on out as the points leader, there is some pressure being on you in that position.

David Starr

Whatever the format, we need it. We've had some close championship battles, but we would have 10 guys in it instead of two or three. A Chase would be so much fun.

Todd Martin

We told the kids we weren't going to play any zone, no gimmicks. We wanted to chase Scott (Kin) and Justin (Frey) all over the floor. We did a nice job.

Giovanni Bisignani

We must chase paper out of our business,

Amara Packwood

He has a jealousy problem. He's knocked a man down before, and he chased an ex-boyfriend out of the field.

Rob Mileski

He has a lot of pride playing defense and he just chased him around all night long. ..He?s got that mentality.

Philip Hobbs

He doesn't run on Saturday. He might run in the AON Chase or he might go straight for the Gold Cup, I don't know yet.

Kirby Nishikawa

He gave chase and tried to get the kid his Xbox back, but he was unsuccessful.

Jonathan Levine

He has a gut-level feeling for what's right and what isn't, what will work and what won't. He just has an instinct for choosing when to engage and when not to engage. It's really remarkable.

Karol Wight

Choosing wall colors was one of the hardest decision-making processes of all.

Les Brown

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

John Lewis Gaddis

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

Renee Williams

I just want to thank Habitat for choosing my family and the First Presbyterian Church for sponsoring.

Milton Bradley

The events written about are very regrettable. Any problems reported have been exaggerated but nonetheless, my wife and I have resolved all issues. The incidents reported will remain private and personal. At this time, I am choosing to handle this matter and all future matters directly and confidentially with the Dodgers. While I continue to work on my off the field issues, my energy is also directed towards preparing for season-ending knee surgery and a lengthy rehabilitation.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

Mike Chinoy

It leaves questions open about the mechanics of choosing a long-term successor,

Najib Razak

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Derek Hall

Historically, in the recruitment area, we have done very little. We are new to the game compared to other institutions.

Heath Cowan

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.

John Keegan

I think the people saw the difference between someone who said he would do things, compared to someone who comes in with new ideas.

Ricky Giles

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

Donna Cerrato

The competition is very tough compared to what we run into during the regular season.

Richard Burr

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to ... New Orleans.

Col. Hoge

A higher percentage of those soldiers returning from Iraq report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home ... compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations.

Jeff Suppan

It's pretty amazing, the type of players that he's compared to. Names that you've heard your whole life, and he's putting up those types of numbers. ... He's the type of guy who has that ability, and has a good work ethic and it shows out on the field.

Mike Johnson

That's pretty large compared to other stop-motion puppets, ... The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Landon Donovan

I would not say it is greatest moment. I would say it is the most gratifying, ... It's been strange. I am used to everyone telling me how great I am and how wonderful things are. This year has been the complete opposite. It's validating and gratifying at the same time.

Dan Fink

Jake had a great sophomore year. He was the focus of everyone's scouting report, and he was still able to get his looks. He is turning into a complete player as he continues to work hard on his game, and more recognition and team success are in the near future for him.

Jack Campbell

Kelly made everyone else better tonight and that's tough when you've got that scoring mentality. She was the complete player and played within herself.

Jose Gil

Jorge is the complete package. He is a great team player. We wanted him to always have the ball, but he constantly was finding ways to get it to the open guy. He's very unselfish.

Michael Robinson

Joe has complete control of this team, honestly.

Tommy Russell

It can be labor intensive. But with any industry, machines make it possible to complete the job fastest and make it less stressful on the employees. We've been integrating these machines into our repairs a little at a time the past 20 years or so.

Rod Thorn

He was a big piece to our puzzle and a quality player. So if it works out that we don't complete the trade, then we've lost a quality player.

Jim Tressel

He's a dynamic young man. He loves to compete. He's working to become a complete quarterback.

Ben Howland

He's a complete player. He is going to be an excellent pro and he could be playing for the Sonics right now just as much as for the Huskies.

Kevin Ford

Harris Interactive has been diligent in creating a voting panel that is balanced, statistically valid, and representative of all I-A conferences and independents.

Jiang Zemin

There are still in this world a few interest groups which always want to seek gains by creating tension here and there,

Derek Damon

His numbers speak for themselves. He hasn't let up a goal in the NCAA tournament. So obviously we are going to have to make sure we are creating a lot of traffic for him.

Lenny Klompus

The people themselves feel they are part of something and they are helping to make something and are creating the initiatives that the governor wants to do.

Stephen Allen

What I'm actually doing is proposing to invest in Indiana. I'm actually talking about creating jobs here.

Jeff Southard

What you're doing is creating an expectation in the public that you're doing something that VDOT won't be able to fulfill. You're setting VDOT up for failure. You're setting VDOT up to take the fall.

Cameron Rast

I thought we looked very sharp and started the game very quickly. We did a good job of forcing the issue and creating opportunities and we found ourselves up by three goals early. If I had to say there was one thing I feel we need to learn from this match, it is how to play with a lead. We weren't as sharp in the second half and didn't quite force our flow to the game.

Sam Smith

We may end up spending what the governor wants to spend. But if we do, we are creating a massive hole for next year.

Rodney Mullen

What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.

Ovid

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Tom Leighton

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

Michel de Montaigne

If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

Fanny Brice

Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

Italo Calvino

There is no language without deceit.

Francois Rabelais

Machination is worth more than force.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Vivian Stringer

I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.

Kevin O'Donnell

His past is his past. You can't escape that. Go out and speak to him, hopefully get the reports and make sure that the system treats him just like any other defendants -- fairly.

Kevin O'Donnell

His past is his past. He can't escape that.

Rita Ora

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

Al Gore

to consolidate its power and escape any accountability for its use.

Andy Coulombe

He was losing 2-1 in the third round and got an escape with about 15 seconds left in the match and then took him down. But that didn't matter because we needed a pin to win the match. He got him on his back and pinned him with about four seconds left.

Nancy Grace

I'm just stunned that he would risk his own escape to go back and seek vengeance.

Tod Martin

After the game, I told our kids, 'We escaped with the win and our lives. . . . It was scary.

Tracy McGrady

It was just good to get out and have some sort of escape from all of the things I've been going through personally.

Kelvin Sampson

Kevin's in all our drills, ... He's shooting, doing his hook shot, shooting free throws. He's doing everything except contact.

Larry Kerr

John Hale is an exception to the rule because he's a true freshman who belies his experience. He picks things up well. He's smart, he's strong and physical.

Amy Fisher

I talked my friend into going with me. It was all adults except for us,

Lee Brumbaugh

He is totally unknown at present, except by historians. He is possibly the greatest unknown photographer.

William Dunkelberg

Historically, except for the dot-com hiring binge, this is a very solid number.

Alan Trammel

I thought we responded to everything well except for this last month. I think, looking back, it is fair to say that we hit a wall.

Meredith Mize

It is a great way to get your mind off stress. When you are climbing, nothing really exists except for you and the wall. When you are finished, you look down and feel like you have accomplished something.

Steve Alford

I thought all the teams were going to be better in our league, with maybe the exception of Illinois. I thought they'd be very good.

Dale Layer

I thought we did a pretty good job on everything except threes.

Chris Hill

Kelvin seems a lot more energized now. He finally got his legs back.

Savas Kyriacou

I think it's a day that Toronto has finally lost its innocence. It was a tragic loss and tragic day.

Paul Ryan

It also tells the American people that we're finally getting serious about saving the Social Security surplus for Social Security benefits.

Kevin Kinel

I think its finally getting to the fun time. It's getting to the point to where we'll find if Mat is up to the challenge.

Art Hogan

I think the dollar's recovery has a huge impact on the market, when you look at things like gold, which is getting tattooed today, ... I also think it's important psychologically, like when oil finally peaked in the mid-50's.

Jeff Gordon

He wasn't real happy with me, but we finally worked it out.

Albert Camus

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Sam Rockwell

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

David Vyborny

I?m happy. It?s what I wanted ? to stay here ? and it?s good we finally got it done.

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Yasuo Fukuda

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Marc Morial

I think the important message today is that an ordinary person -- a quiet, humble person -- can ignite a movement,

Rachael Scoggin

Humble is tied for first place, and I think we played them a pretty quality game.

Tommy Moore

He was kind, considerate and a very humble person, but he was a lion in politics.

Wale

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie

Upton Sinclair

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

Ronald Reagan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Wendell Berry

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Mike James

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.

Greg Davis

I'm very humbled to be the recipient of this award.

Bob Bourne

Cy-Ride outgrew itself continually, right from the beginning.

Jeff Traylor

It's always worked itself out in the past and this situation will work itself out too.

William Gibson

It seems as though the Net itself has become conscious,

Noah Feldman

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

Johnathan Frakes

The last script was so wonderful and the story was so exciting. The film itself did so well and, frankly, it made so much money-it kind of reinvigorated the whole franchise.

Allen Lichtenstein

The discrimination was aimed at John McDonald. Domino's itself viewed JWM as John McDonald.

Margaret Heffernan

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Jerry Uelsmann

The room itself had a strange, timeless quality to it.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Zig Ziglar

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

William F. Buckley, Jr.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Robbie Loomis

This is just another step toward what we want to do at Petty Enterprises. We keep trying to do it every day and keep getting better and better.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

William Robertson Smith

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

P. G. Wodehouse

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Terry Tempest Williams

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

George Carlin

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Frederick Leboyer

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Felix Mendelssohn

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Marshall Brickman

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

Patrick Ness

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Mike Pence

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts

Rainbow Rowell

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Joan Robinson

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

Dan Ariely

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Craig Brown

This is not the right solution to the problem.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

James Wolfensohn

HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Rose Macaulay

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Upton Sinclair

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.