Frictionless World Quotes & Sayings

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home. — Nigel Lythgoe

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. — Ai Weiwei

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things. — Joshua Lederberg

Who buys French cars? Not me. — Karl Lagerfeld

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun. — Rita Mae Brown

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one. — Ann Hood

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. — Saul Alinsky

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent Van Gogh

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming. — Donal Logue

To eat passionately is to allow the world in. — Kate Christensen

My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair. — Evelyn Waugh

I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. — Virginia Woolf

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. — Sarah Brown

If I've learned anything, it's that we know next to nothing. Disease is a mystery. Health is inscrutable. The body itself is scarcely understood; we can only examine the secrets of the dead. And in all that dark ignorance, we're sometimes granted a rare moment of illumination. The truth is a gift. — Courtney Milan

I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else. — John Burnham Schwartz