22850 Quotes & Sayings

When a thing is denied, the very denial involves something not denied. — D.T. Suzuki

If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me. — Jose Mourinho

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream. — Diana Wynne Jones

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. — Corrie Ten Boom

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. — Francis Bacon

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl. — Agnetha Faltskog

At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us. I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run.
A lucky long shot of my revolver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people. — Joe Morgan

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper! — Roddy Piper

I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. — Jim Butcher

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. — Katherine Anne Porter

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do. — Abraham H. Maslow

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur? — Katherine Applegate

When the abyss gazes into you, bill it. — Steve Aylett