Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

Bill Schneider

His whole argument is 'Vote for me, and this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to beat Bush, and here's how.' That's his whole campaign.

William Hazlitt

There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law.

William Shakespeare

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Scott Moss

There is an argument that it would be appropriate now. But I doubt that will happen.

William S. Burroughs

In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.

William Matthews

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

Woodrow Wilson

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

Vance Havner

God's Word is its own best argument.

Rob Reiner

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

John Coltrane

Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.

Charlize Theron

One thing can make many other things happen.

Usain Bolt

Every season something happens so I programme that in; something will happen.

Garry Winogrand

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.