283190 Quotes & Sayings

Thus the midday halt of Charnock - more's the pity! Grew a City. As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed, So it spread - Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built — Dennison Berwick

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book. — James Franco

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister ... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. — Ronaldinho

The best business models become role models for others. — David Hieatt

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. — Kay Boyle

Life will give to the givers, and take from the takers — Steven Aitchison

She never came back after mid-term break; according to the Automator, 'unforeseen circumstances' had forced her to extend her holiday. Every day Howard sees her classes trooping despondently from the Geography Room to the study hall, or carrying votive bundles of cardboard and paper to the recycling bins, their faces anxious, hopeful, like Indians doing a rain dance. He knows how they feel. Since mid-term he's existed in a constant state of tension, braced against every moment as the one that might finally restore her. Even out of school, even on his own, shopping in the supermarket, sitting at the traffic lights, he finds himself holding his breath. But the days are a series of ghost pregnancies, delivering nothing. — Paul Murray

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. — Annie Dillard

A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn. — Alicia Keys

Do not try to serve Jesus Christ with only your works - fall in love with Him! — Sunday Adelaja

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything. — Big Boi

Borges, who said, Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve. — Paul Theroux

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

I've colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it's going to do! I went blonde and lost all my baby hairs. I'm not coloring it anymore. Never again. — Michelle Phan