9700 Quotes & Sayings

He that needs five thousand pound to live,
Is full as poor as he that needs but five. — George Herbert

Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever unexciting thing the actual high school class clown is doing now. — Mindy Kaling

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope. — Toni Morrison

As a member of a zippier generation, with sparkle in its eyes and a snap in its stride, let me tell you what kept us as high as kites a lot of the time: hatred. All my life I've had people to hate - from Hitler to Nixon, not that those two are at all comparable in their villainy. It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate. If you want to feel ten feet tall and as though you could run a hundred miles without stopping, hate beats pure cocaine any day. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half-starved nation with hatred and nothing more. Imagine — Kurt Vonnegut

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. — Robert Creeley

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals. — Aleksandar Hemon

Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish. — Martin Naughton

[Ranger] "How's your mental health?" he asked. "I heard about Soder."
[Stephanie] "I'm rattled."
"I have a cure."
Oh, boy.
He put the truck in gear and headed for the exit. "I know what you're thinking," he said. "And that wasn't where I was going. I was going to suggest work."
"I knew that."
He looked over at me and grinned. "You want me bad."
I did. God help me. — Janet Evanovich

I don't want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do. — Mario Andretti

Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. — Pentti Linkola

I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what i believe. I cannot unlive my life — Hilary Mantel

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother. — Ian Gillan