Doug Billings Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain ... — John Green

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character. — Paul Kagame

I only want to sleep ... and never wake. — Alan Grant

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter. — Atom Yang

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda. — Noam Chomsky

When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre. — John Heywood

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself. — Adolf Hitler

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers. — Nelson DeMille

In fact, the first time I ever got naked on TV was the biggest confidence booster of my life. — Lizzy Caplan

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me. — Romain Gary

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. — Michel Onfray

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. — Jack Nicklaus

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance. — Bono

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you. — Eckhart Tolle