Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Lasorda

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Steven Biko

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Sam Mendes

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

Rumi

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

Susan Orlean

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Stephen Fry

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Tommy Chong

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Tom Brown, Jr.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Stephenie Meyer

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Thomas B. Macaulay

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Thomas Jefferson

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

Thomas Friedman

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Raymond Queneau

All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

Tana French

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

Sylvia Plath

There is no life higher than the grasstops

Samantha Shannon

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

Serena Williams

I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

Serena Williams

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

Seth Grahame-Smith

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Sebastian Horsley

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Michael Scott

I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.

John Muir

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Ted Nugent

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

Theodore Roosevelt

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

Theodore Roosevelt

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Theodor Adorno

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

Marco Polo

Without stones there is no arch

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.