2919 Quotes & Sayings

Ultimately, I just made the decision to move to L.A. sight unseen. It took me a while to save up some money to do it. — Timothy Simons

Belief is the enemy of a storyteller — Rabih Alameddine

Her song, which had been somewhere in the back of her head for most of her life, had a reassuring, marching sort of beat, and words that were about protecting the weak, and it had a chorus that began "Evildoers beware!" and was thus much too silly ever to be sung out loud. She would hum it to herself sometimes though, in the shower, during the soapy bits. — Neil Gaiman

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics. — Adam Jones

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul. — E. M. Forster

My characters still talk the way normal people talk. They argue, they are sarcastic with each other, they joke around. I usually end up with one outrageous minor character in each book that people just rave about. We all have that one friend who says and does things that are a riot. A character like that is the salt in the soup: you want just enough to bring everything to life. — Dan Alatorre

He glared at Mr. Diddley's yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he'd like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it. — Justin Swapp

When you plan ahead, shit never goes wrong, just in different directions. - Welliver. — James Cox

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it. — Merle Miller

They went together to the pond. The frogs, frozen by the movement, sat still. Fourteen golden eyes like nuggets gleamed unwinking from the margin. Some squatted on dead reeds and immersed branches. Tranced by the half-apprehended movement above them they relied for safety upon immobility. Some hung by one slim hand like children to a raft. All had been stricken to stone by the human appearance. Only the sun, shifting in the sky, tickled the fire in the nuggets in their green heads. — Enid Bagnold

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. — Lisa Bonet

There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded. — Alex Jones

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none. — John William Draper

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation. — Nigel Rees