Ented Quotes & Sayings

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life. — Henry Ward Beecher

In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up. — Helmut Lang

Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company. — Peter Lynch

Don't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do. — Billy Graham

It pain me to tell you that once again Count Olaf would appear with yet another disgusting scheme, and that Mr. Poe would once again fail to do anything even remotely helpful. — Lemony Snicket

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep. — Mary McCarthy

Government can only reign over a classes-divided society. — Toba Beta

The figures of the past go cloaked.
They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go. — Wallace Stevens

But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. — Tana French

Straight people are so fucking weird. — Warren Ellis

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth. — Barry Bostwick

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami

I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in publishing, said, 'you already wrote one (referencing a screenplay), you just need to add the details. — E.L. Sayers

Be loving and kind all the time. — Heather Wolf

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I've always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I've done other charity books already. — J.K. Rowling

Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame. — Ian McEwan