Bilicious Quotes & Sayings

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. — Samuel Johnson

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand. — Howard Cosell

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on. — John Cusack

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all. — Barbra Streisand

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games. — Jane McGonigal

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves. — Philipp Meyer

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do
make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know. — Stephen King

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table. — Isadore Singer

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent. — Eugene Delacroix

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me. — Christian Bauman

The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now. — Stephenie Meyer

It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control. — Sadie Calvano

Religion is life essential. — George MacDonald

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response. — Conor Oberst

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals. — Alfie Kohn