37830 Quotes & Sayings

Good writing like good sex requires discipline. — Chloe Thurlow

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

Stark raving mad. — Stieg Larsson

Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do. — J.G. Ballard

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. — Joe Slovo

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on. — Gloria Estefan

wakened by pain
from a dream of pain
I wipe the sweat
and rose petals
scatter — Shiki Masaoka

In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ... — Steve Almond

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet, — Hugo Chavez

A private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else's casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself. — Arthur Hailey

If it was indeed Nebuchadnezzar, it would be a more ostentatious move than even Kanye West could pull off. — Bianca Juarez Olthoff

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. — Henri Bergson