2013 Coming To An End Quotes & Sayings

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — W. H. Auden

Anyone who has character leaves a mark on another. — Nora Roberts

I find that 'Ghostbusters' and 'Alien' actually have a lot in common in that they're both so naturalistic in the performances. It feels like people you could be hanging out with right now in this room, yet they're on a spaceship or killing ghosts. But the way they talk is never heightened or otherwordly. — Akiva Schaffer

We know what wood is and what earth and stone are and that they have a color and texture, a smell and even a taste, but matter as a perceptible material substance independent of the nature of the wood, earth and stone composed of it seems incomprehensible. In order for us to regard a thing as real it must possess at least some distinctive physical qualities. We must be able to experience it as a physical thing before we can decide it is real. Matter as proposed by modern science, however, has no distinctive or definite physical qualities at all. Matter is simply some unimaginable stuff possessing no conceivable definition whatsoever. The concept of matter, then, proves to be just as elusive and abstract as the concepts of spirit, soul or the life-principle. — Ojo Blacke

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath. — Pico Iyer

Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me. — Vincent Kartheiser

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law. — Theodore Roosevelt

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career. — Rick Warren

You're all dark, dark, dark. And Jace and I are light. — Cassandra Clare

The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change. — Joel A. Barker

Art, n. This word has no definition. — Ambrose Bierce

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. — Bernard Arnault

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. — Gustav Stickley