Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Rosenberg

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

Isaac Watts

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Jeanette Winterson

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

Jeanette Winterson

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

Jerzy Kosinski

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Jerzy Kosinski

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Jerzy Kosinski

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Jemima Kirke

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Jeaniene Frost

That’s right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged.

Jim Fowler

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

George Sand

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

George Saunders

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

George Saunders

It's a little like packing for a trip. First you lay out everything that might possibly be useful, with no thought about the size of your suitcase. Then, look at your suitcase. In the case of narrative, there's a certain obligation to keep the pace up and have each section or subsection be doing something.

George Saunders

I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

George Bernard Shaw

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Gena Rowlands

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Gena Rowlands

John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.

Frederik Pohl

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Fredrik Bajer

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Frederick William Faber

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Franz Kafka

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Franz Kafka

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Franz Kafka

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Franz Kafka

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

Franz Kafka

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Franz Kafka

Writers speak stench.

Emma Bunton

I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.

Jay Asher

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Hannah More

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

Greg Giraldo

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.