Brugere Quotes & Sayings

Why then the human voice, rather than a hyena's howls or the clanging of a hammer? Answer, so that the shock may not be too great, when the writhings of true lips meet his gaze. Between them they find a rejoinder to everything. And how they enjoy talking, they know there is no worse torment, for one not in the conversation. — Samuel Beckett

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge — George Will

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you. — Alan Cohen

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going. — Ellen DeGeneres

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare. — Charles Lindbergh

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna. — Francois Mauriac

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming ideas and laboring over the production of sentences, paragraphs, scenes, dialogue, punctuation, and all the elements that go into writing a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a poem. When we're not writing, we're thinking, plotting, imagining, or editing, which can be far more tedious than cranking out first drafts.
--Fire Up Your Writing Brain — Susan Reynolds

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents. — Doris Lessing

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people. — Barack Obama

Thought is the strongest thing we have. — Albert Schweitzer

If the killer had really wanted to keep his victim's provenance hidden, he would have taken the head far away, or simply weighted it and thrown it into the fast-flowing tide of the Thames. The invention of the garbage bag had been a boon to murderers everywhere. — Christopher Fowler

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song. — Rabindranath Tagore