Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Steiner

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

George Orwell

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

George Orwell

To die hating them, that was freedom.

George Orwell

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

George Orwell

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

George R. R. Martin

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

George R. R. Martin

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

George R. R. Martin

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

George R. R. Martin

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are

George R. R. Martin

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

George R. R. Martin

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

George R. R. Martin

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Jean Cocteau

And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

George Carlin

You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.

George Carlin

You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

George Carlin

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

George Carlin

I hate Dr Phil. Dr Phil told me to express my feelings, so I'm expressing them.

Gene Simmons

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

Garry Wills

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

Garth Stein

I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

Garry Winogrand

I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.

Frederick Douglass

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.

Frederick Buechner

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

Frank Thomas

I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.

Frank Gehry

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

Frank Gehry

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Frank Gehry

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

Ferdinand Mount

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

Fernando Pessoa

And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

Fernando Pessoa

And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

Fiona Gubelmann

One of the things I've learned - before I would go on a show, I was like, "Oh God, I hate that show" or "That show is gonna get canceled." But now after being full-time on a show, you see how difficult it is and how much work goes into it and how so many decisions are based on finances or people's schedules or talent or location issues. It's a miracle that anything gets made.

Fiona Shaw

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Ferran Adria

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.