Ficticias Quotes & Sayings

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic. — Corey Taylor

People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy was published in the 1950s, a woman named Rhona Beare wrote Tolkien and asked him about the chapter in which the Ring of Power is destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. When the ring is melted, the Dark Lord's entire power collapses and melts away with it. She found it inexplicable that this unassailable, overwhelming power would be wiped out by the erasure of such a little object. Tolkien replied that at the heart of the plot was the Dark Lord's effort to magnify and maximize his power by placing so much of it in the ring. He wrote: "The Ring of Sauron is only one of the various mythical treatments of the placing of one's life, or power, in some external object, which is thus exposed to capture or destruction with disastrous results to oneself. — Timothy J. Keller

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it. — James Dyson

Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or horns on eagles — Voltaire

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle. — Og Mandino

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. — Ayn Rand

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict. — Tom Robbins

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. — Babe Ruth

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life. — Karisma Kapoor