Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Baker

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Travis Hafner

I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep.

Woody Allen

Why ruin a good story with the truth?

Walter Benjamin

In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.

Walter Benjamin

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

Saul Bellow

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

Winston Churchill

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Joseph Addison

A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Ellen Hopkins

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity...

J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All perishable is but an allegory.

China Mieville

I don't like allegory.

Howard Mumford Jones

Nature seen from the point of view of common sense is commodity; from the point of view of reason it is an alphabet or allegory of divinity.

Gyorgy Ligeti

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

Charles Baudelaire

Everything for me becomes allegory