Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivy Compton-Burnett

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

Italo Calvino

You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.

Jack London

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

May the love you've expressed to each other today always be the first thoughts during any trying times in the future.

David Lipsky

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

Charles Dickens

. . . it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Mike Huckabee

I think the reimbursement is going to come, and I am not going to worry about that, ... But I was just expressing what I know is an overwhelming situation for them.

Landowners have expressed a growing interest in understanding the principles of wildlife habitat management.

My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.

David Vitter

Many folks, including me, frankly, were disappointed that Senator Landrieu a few years ago filibustered and supported that filibuster of Miguel Estrada ... after she had expressed strong support of that very nomination in her re-election campaign,

Barry Lopez

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression

Big Pun

There's no longevity, living off of negativity.

Bhagat Singh

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

C. S. Lewis

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

C. S. Lewis

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Cecil Beaton

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Cecelia Ahern

She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

Carrie Fisher

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

Bill Bryson

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Bill Brandt

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

I wasn't unsure at all. I was relieved more than anything to have her express the same feelings I had.

Retief Goosen

I would love to win ? not too many players have won it three times, ... But this week, next week at the World Match Play and the American Express are three very important weeks.

Members expressed a lack of understanding about the project. They wanted to make sure we're not just giving money to a pizza joint.

Alfonso Soriano

Look, I know that there are people who are racist, but what surprised me was that he was so open about it. I know there is racism out there, but many people don't express it like that.

Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.

Mike Birbiglia

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

We don't take issue with anything the minister has expressed here today.

Frank White

We have spoken to Federal Express to be ready to load up everything the day before Oct. 11, which is Tuesday.

Ethan Zuckerman

We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking risks. It is about free speech, that's all.

Ernesto Zedillo

Wherever we are found, we always express and honor our love for Mexico, with all our hearts and our heads held high,

Jean de la Bruyere

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

Jean de la Bruyere

Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.