Absenses Quotes & Sayings

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. — Erica Jong

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person ... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going. — Phyllis A. Whitney

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for? — Robert Anton Wilson

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am. — W. Somerset Maugham

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards ... the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill ... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins. — Joseph Goebbels

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. — John Adams

I had plenty of vices growing up. — Orlando Bloom

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else. — Will Storr

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. ... The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention. — Ernst Alexanderson

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. — Karl Marx

I want the late-night drives, the sunset watching, the screaming, the yelling, and the crying. I know I'll definitely want the make-up sex that comes after all of the screaming and crying. I want the good, the bad, and the in-between. All of it is what's going to make us amazing together. — Gail McHugh

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary. — Charlton Heston

True love doesn't grow on you, feed on you, drain you and spoil your heart. It nourishes, waters the soul and intensifies in absenses long and short. — C. Nzingha Smith

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different. — Lewis Grizzard