Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

Chuck Close

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

Andrew Carnegie

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Amos Oz

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Amos Oz

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

Amos Oz

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Anthony de Mello

Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

Anne Stevenson

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Angela Lansbury

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Anita Brookner

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

Daniel J. Boorstin

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Clarence Darrow

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

David Foster Wallace

The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.

Davina McCall

They're all... looking... a little... nervous right now

Davy Jones

I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.

David Spade

Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

David Lyons

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

David Lynch

Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.

David Hemmings

Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

Dan Brown

A little faith can do wonders...

Confucius

When frying small fish, disturb them little.

Confucius

Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.

Confucius

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

Andy Lally

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

Anthony Horowitz

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

Alison Bechdel

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

Alice Duer Miller

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Andy Richter

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

Annie Lennox

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

Anna Netrebko

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

Angie Martinez

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.