Ascriptions Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. — Max Stirner

People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. — Chester Elijah Branch

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms. — Peter Greenaway

Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed
To form the angelic butterfly, that goes
To judgment, leaving all defence behind?
Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,
Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean
As worm which never transformation knows? — Dante Alighieri

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. — Viktor E. Frankl

We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes ... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character. — Vince Lombardi

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles. — M T Anderson

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men. — Dorothy Kilgallen

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it. — Mahatma Gandhi

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. — Ray Bradbury

...so much has been laid on the sunset - heavy-handed metaphors, sentimental music. Everyone's always walking into them, and that is some very intense light. Maybe that's where the term "love is blind" comes from, because so many people are walking into sunsets, burning out their corneas. — Kirk Farber