13395 Quotes & Sayings

The most successful scientist thinks like a poet - wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical - and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees. — Edward O. Wilson

ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Is it possible she could be right? That Peeta could return to me? "I have to — Suzanne Collins

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers. — Ernest Hemingway,

Beliefs create reality — Melody Beattie

He sees her standing at the end of a passage in her life, without any next step to take - all her bets are in, she has only the tedium now of being knocked from one room to the next, a sequence of numbered rooms whose numbers do not matter, till inertia brings her to the last. That's all. — Thomas Pynchon

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wonder if this is it. If I have finally flown too far from home. I think of Ramonda and Ororo. Zuri and W'Kabi. Father and S'yan. But above all, I think of you. and I think of dying out here, of drifting out here, in search of but far away from you. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Do you find this...distracting? — Suzanne Collins

Walking through this life really is walking through fire. — Chaka Khan

A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well.
Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood) — Hiromu Arakawa

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again. — Noah Hawley

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault. — Don Young

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed. — Meryl Streep

Switzerland is undeniably a modern country, but gender roles make occasional appearances. In some cantons women didn't get the right to vote until the 1970s. Anna knew she'd been in Switzerland too long when this stopped appalling her. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down — Charlotte Bronte