Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Schumacher

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.

E. F. Schumacher

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Alan Watts

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Cheryl Richardson

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

Cheryl Strayed

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Cecil Rhodes

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Cecelia Ahern

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

Carrie Fisher

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Carl Rogers

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

Bette Davis

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

Bette Davis

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

Antoine Rivarol

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

William Shakespeare

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Kim Edwards

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.