Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

Sri Aurobindo

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

Mahatma Gandhi

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

Laura Hillenbrand

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

Louis Zamperini

If you can take it, you can make it.

Rick Yancey

Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

Alan Jackson

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Alan Colmes

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Alan Bennett

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Alain Resnais

When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

Al Jarreau

I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

China Mieville

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

Edith Wharton

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

Benicio Del Toro

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

Dan Gebo

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

Charles Darwin

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Richard Brautigan

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Richard Branson

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

Tamora Pierce

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

Sylvia Plath

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

Robert T. Bakker

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

Chris Stringer

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

Pierre Loti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.