Fildes Quotes & Sayings

focus not on the problem but on what we were going to do about it. — Foo Yin Tung

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom. — Dana Carvey

Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children. — Donald Miller

Growing up? Gavriel, that was last week watching her recover from crashing out of that office window. She fell out of her wheelchair and broke her other arm." Caspian laughed along with his mate.
Gavriel pulled the phone back and stared at it in horror. — Alanea Alder

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor. — Mike May

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused. — Leo Tolstoy

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist. — Luigi Pirandello

I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are. — George W. Bush

Russia was culturally isolated for so long that some sort of transformation needs to happen and will happen. — Dasha Zhukova

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. — Voltaire

Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls. — Martin Amis