From17 Quotes & Sayings

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind. — Samuel Johnson

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him. — Jose Saramago

I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space. — George Wald

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley

I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done. — Barbara Windsor

Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts. — Martin Amis

Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart. — Dean Martin

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. — Voltaire

Even those people who have no sorrow of their own often feel melancholy from the circumstances in which they are placed. — Murasaki Shikibu

I get really antsy if I stay in one place too long. Universal was really supportive and understood that I needed to go across the Atlantic to reinvent myself and to find my voice, my muse. — Stella Soleil

Don't stop when you fail. Instead, use your failures to measure your level of success. — Kevin J. Donaldson

Seriously, what is the purpose? Maybe I'd feel better about walking around speaking fluent jive if I knew there was a reason for it. — Elle Lothlorien

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October ... — Friedrich Nietzsche