Carnac The Great Quotes & Sayings

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that. — Miley Cyrus

Dogs are my favorite people. — Richard Dean Anderson

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers. — John Connolly

She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not really a nerd: I only aspire to be one. Because of the high-school-dropout thing, I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life. So I wear the name as a badge of honor. That someday I may not totally bore some really smart people. The question is: How do you find smart people? — Gillian Flynn

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue — Mao Zedong

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about. — Gloria Furman

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times. — Anna Deavere Smith

I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear. — Lesley Pearse

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own. — Lev S. Vygotsky

I found myself wondering about her as I wondered about myself. Who are we really? Are we who we are at our worst, or at our best? — Randall Wallace

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar. — Julian Casablancas

Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families. — P. J. O'Rourke

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God?
Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures — Kami Garcia

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer