Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Joe Torre

Opening day is very special. We've waited a long time for this. I left for spring training about two months ago.

Ken Gaddy

Our saying is it's not what's in the museum, it's what's left out.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Walter Kirn

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Win Butler

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Mark Adams

We were kind of left to make it up as we went along.

Tony Beardsley

We're not sure if he's 100 percent because we haven't thrown him out there. He's doing better. I look for him to come back where he left off.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Paul Hawken

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Juno Temple

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Kristin Hannah

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

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!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Carlyle

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Thomas Carlyle

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Thomas Carlyle

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Thomas Carlyle

The genuine essence of truth never dies.