Commonly Mistaken Movie Quotes & Sayings

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself ... Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. — George Gershwin

Can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even — Jane Austen

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates ... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him. — Jean-Baptiste Say

And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of his life. — Chaim Potok

The truth of the matter is that the Quran was not revealed in the complete form in which it exists today. It was revealed from time to time, according to the circumstances, over a time span of 23 years. — Anonymous

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone. — Ann Brashares

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey. — Albert Camus

Because I need you more right now than I need to breathe. — Angie Stanton

In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy — Zachary Taylor