Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Bennett

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Edith Wharton

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

David Icke

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.

David Hume

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Ben van Berkel

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Jack Kerouac

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Bill O'Reilly

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

Charles Taylor

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Chinua Achebe

My weapon is literature

Chinua Achebe

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

Edward Hirsch

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

David Hume

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Audre Lorde

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Kurt Vonnegut

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Bill O'Reilly

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Carlos Fuentes

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Catherine the Great

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

Mark Badgley

The mood is soft, and it's feminine, ... It's an elongated shape, but it's not ethereal. It's edgier than that.

Russell Feingold

The mood has really shifted. We are in a whole different period.

Keren Ann

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

Bram Stoker

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Jamie Sale

We all have a different idea about what our programs are or the moods we're trying to set. It's your own interpretations of what you're trying to portray.

T. Harv Eker

I act when I’m not in the mood.

Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Sinqua Walls

I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.