48312 Quotes & Sayings

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty. — Michael Learned

But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs. — Catherynne M Valente

The genius of love and the genius of hunger, those twin brothers, are the two moving forces behind all living things. All living things set themselves in motion to feed and to reproduce. Love and hunger share the same purpose. Life must never cease; life must be sustained and must create. Turgenev, Little poems in prose, XXIII — Anonymous

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball. — Jeremy London

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small. — Jim Rohn

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point. — Chiang Kai-shek

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child. — Rabindranath Tagore

It's not what you know; it's not even who you know; it's what you implement that counts. — Brian P. Moran

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world — Lucille Clifton

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. — George Eliot

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie. — Jeanette Winterson

Uber, which raised $1.2 billion this month at a valuation of $40 billion, said in August it had sought a legal opinion and that its Seoul service obeys the law. Opposition to its operations is down to outdated regulations that precede smartphone and wireless technology, Allen Penn, the company's head of Asia, told reporters at the time. Paid transportation with unregistered vehicles is "clearly illegal activity," South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said later that month. The maximum penalty for Uber's alleged legal violation is a two-year prison sentence or a fine of nearly $20,000, Yonhap News reported Wednesday. — Anonymous

I'm a dramatist. — Richard LaGravenese

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. — Olive Schreiner