53215 Quotes & Sayings

Beside every great writer is a great listener. — Nanette L. Avery

Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth. — Craig Brown

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly, — James Cameron

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. — Thomas Hobbes

I am not in Us Weekly . I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself. — John Mayer

I'm really big into yoga, so I go On Demand and look up workouts. I'm all about it. — Mitchel Musso

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing. — Sania Mirza

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. — Bertrand Russell

I had my ups and downs and I fell a few times, but I did not give. Don't give up ... — Rachel Scott

Come what may and love it. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Maybe a little break," she muttered. "Just maybe." She'd lucked out with Mason Tobias. He might've been a little dingy, — J.D. Robb

What had I done? Where was my fun? I wanted play, I wanted sun, he was the opposite - I called him Zum because he's an un-fun, the sort of mean-fun bully on the playground-fun. Mean Mr. Zum.
This was madness, this was badness this was sadness this was too much un-fun-ness. — Coco J. Ginger

Descriptions of dreams have a dubious place in storytelling. For these are dreams which have been imagined--'dreamed up', to be slotted in. A story can be made up. How can a dream be made up? By not rising of its own free will from the unconscious it sets a note of falsity, merely illustrating something 'dream-like', which may be why dream descriptions within stories seen curiously meaningless. To avoid glazing over, best then to turn the page quickly. — Murray Bail

Cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music. — Edith Wharton

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. — Charles De Montesquieu