12670746 Quotes & Sayings

It is an activity that takes a day to learn and a lifetime to master. — Tim Henriques

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. — Mark Twain

Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk. — David Letterman

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all. — Lauren Oliver

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out. — Jim Crace

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life. — Jonathan Kozol

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. — Elvis Costello

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. — Rose Tremain

I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth. — Giordano Bruno