Amidst Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying. — Errol Morris

There is nothing good in this world that does not have some filth in its origin. — Anton Chekhov

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation
one point of light. — Radclyffe Hall

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her."
"Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea. — Zadie Smith

If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster." — Brian Regan

Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn't exist at all: awareness. Nothing more than that. Just awareness - a vague, ethereal sense of being. Being ... but not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future - only an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception ... — Robert J. Sawyer

I love that this film [Into the Forest] has a balance. — Evan Rachel Wood

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches. — Ellen G. White

I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work. It's so important to me. It's my passion. — Adelaide Kane

Rock and roll is my religion. — Ozzy Osbourne

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love! — Lewis Carroll

Sensitive OPA data was scrubbed and overwritten with innocuous-looking logs with false time stamps. Anything too sensitive to trust to a computer, the captain destroyed. — Anonymous

I am because WE are and, since we are, therefore I am. — John S. Mbiti