15644 Quotes & Sayings

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am. — Kevin Whately

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered. — Donald Kagan

The hardest part about writing is falling in love with your characters. I can't even tell you how many times I've wanted to take one of them out for a beer, but I can't, because I made them up in my head. It's heart breaking, but it also means you created someone real, and there's no equivalent for that feeling. — Quinn Anderson

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence. — William Butler Yeats

In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read "Be nice to me, I'm grieving," or "Don't tick me off; I've already got the world on my shoulders," or maybe even "BEWARE - don't upset the widow!" I needed a variety of signs that I could switch out depending on my daily mood. — Elizabeth Berrien

The day of heroes has passed," Uncle Edwarn said. "The stories of people breaking out of history belong to another world. We have reached an era of modernism, both louder and more silent at the same time. You watch. Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same - and do it far, far more effectively. — Brandon Sanderson

Be a good listener, so your spoken words may be appropriate — Emmanuel Aluko

easier question to answer. "Who wouldn't be? This is New Riviera, the paradise planet, the best of Mother Earth concentrated and then spread like a fine glaze on an entire world instead of just a small part of it. — Alan Dean Foster

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. — A.W. Tozer

The only death we experience is that of other people — Tom Rachman

The words & deeds of those who are rightly guided speak for themselves.They need no force to spread their faith — Mirza Masroor Ahmad