Fictions Signpost Quotes & Sayings

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. — Elizabeth McGovern

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information. — David Cross

As Needed' - Getting your personal needs met is a core requirement for mental health. Do you know what your needs are? — Tricia Ferrara

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. — Karl Kraus

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi

When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today. — Joe Dante

One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street. — Robin Williams

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school. — Clark Terry

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent — Betty Williams

I love you, Dr. Taylor MacLay Bestman. Come with me through the years. Whatever God has in store, I want you by my side. — Cathy Marie Hake

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace. — Richard E. Byrd

I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper. — David Cross

According to then current laws of war, the besieged could make terms if they surrendered, but not if they forced a siege to its bitter end, so presumably Charles felt no compunctions. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles De Gaulle