637 Area Quotes & Sayings

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't. — Mark Twain

Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted! — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature. — Calvin Coolidge

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century. — Ricky Jay

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this. — Steven Magee

Our tendency to notice the very things we are thinking about or have just learned at any given moment: — Anonymous

Orwell's 1984 [ ... ] is political thought disguised as a novel; the thinking is certainly lucid and correct, but it is distorted by its guise as a novel, which renders it imprecise and vague. [ ... ] the situations and the characters are as flat as a poster.
The pernicious influence of Orwell's novel resides in its implacable reduction of a reality to its political dimension alone, and in its reduction of that dimension to what is exemplarily negative about it. I refuse to forgive this reduction on the grounds that it was useful as propaganda in the struggle against totalitarian evil. For that evil is, precisely, the reduction of life to politics and of politics to propaganda. So despite its intentions, Orwell's novel itself joins in the totalitarian spirit, the spirit of propaganda. It reduces (and teaches others to reduce) the life of a hated society to the simple listing of its crimes. — Milan Kundera

All thoughts are prey to some beast — Bill Callahan

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work. — Tatiana Maslany

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there. — Atom Egoyan

I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction. — Blakney Francis

The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away. — Jessie Burton