Beletristica Dex Quotes & Sayings

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities. — Dennis Lehane

Eventually, the Pat's of this world forgot about you and moved on to someone else. The worst part was that deep down inside, you knew that there was a truth to everything they said. And even if that truth wasn't bad or good, they still owned part of it. They owned a piece of you. — Peter Monn

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.) — Leonard Ravenhill

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television, — Elliott Smith

Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same. — Katherine McIntyre

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact. — Konosuke Matsushita

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds. — Bubba Watson

I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. — Jack Nicholson

You live and die by results, I asked to be judged on that and people have. — Steve McClaren

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells. — Saul Williams

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return. — John D. Rockefeller

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument. — Mark Twain

Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration. How frequent the profit is irrelevant; it is the magnitude of the outcomes that counts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — Max Planck