65000 Quotes & Sayings

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time. — W.S. Merwin

It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life. — Nikolai Gogol

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you are so full of sorrow
that you can't walk, can't cry anymore,
think about the green foliage that sparkles after
the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when
you hope a final night will cover the world,
think about the awakening of a young child. — Omar Khayyam

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. — Nancy Pelosi

Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it. — John Gould

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot. — Bill Mumy

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show. — Roberto Aguire

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration. — Jada Pinkett Smith

The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble. — Julie Klassen