Common Misquote Quotes & Sayings

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action. — Hermann Hesse

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics. — Mary Ritter Beard

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes. — Chuck Palahniuk

My dear, I don't give a damn. — Margaret Mitchell

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. — Robert A. Baker

He had hair that would terrify a comb and his face was one big scowl with a nose, two eyes and two ears seemingly added on as an after-thought. — Ben Gavan

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that. — Joy Fielding

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin. — Autumn Reeser

I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost. — John Wyndham

They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness — Manly P. Hall

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true. — Liu Bei

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look
like a chair. — Richard Schultz

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims. — Martha Moody

The most effective way to share the gospel is to live it. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren't just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us. — Sheri L. Dew

A man's beliefs about the effects of the substance will largely be borne out. If he believes that alcohol can make him aggressive, it will, as research has shown. On the other hand, if he doesn't attribute violence-causing powers to substances, he is unlikely to become aggressive even when severely intoxicated. — Lundy Bancroft

When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice. — Iyanla Vanzant