Fermished Quotes & Sayings

Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction. — Lew Wallace

I read; I travel; I become — Derek Walcott

I'm not going to be one of those amputees who dances and everyone finds inspiring. I'm not inspiring. I'm just me. — Katherine Locke

I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness — Christine Piper

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled. — Ricky Martin

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007. — Robert Darnton

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else. — G-Eazy

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one. — Gregory Benford

I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays. — Ishmael Reed

How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost? — Morgan Matson

The small things in life are sometimes the most precious gifts we are given, and when you recognize them when they arrive, then you are truly blessed. — Raine Miller

I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point? — Nancy Meyers

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. — Karl Rove

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie. — Truman Capote

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. — John James Audubon