Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

David Whiles

We'll let that percolate for the next 30 days.

Mason Cooley

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

Marci Maynes

On our next date, I said I have an 8-year-old son.

Eric Haller

But when I do snap out of it I won't know it's my last. I'll just be waiting for the next one.

Jose Vidro

Basically, he said I need the surgery if I'm going to play without this pain next year,

Stanley Kramer

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

Corbin Bernsen

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Confucius

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

Ambrose Bierce

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.