15722 Quotes & Sayings

Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. — David Eddings

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where. — Hugh Howey

And to be wroth with one we love ... Doth work like madness in the brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions. — Robert Wald Sussman

Acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure. — Margaret Kennedy

The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars. — Philippe Falardeau

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. — Aleksandar Hemon

Sometimes
she knows this from her own life
to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is. — Oscar Wilde

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos. — D.H. Lawrence

We've all been should upon enough. — Stephen Levine

Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required to remove and inter the body in such a way that it can always be located precisely at any time while preventing it from ever appearing again. — Michael Cisco

Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion ... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country. — Jill Scott

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship. — Annie Leibovitz