Funny One Liners Sarcastic Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds - staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible. — Haruki Murakami

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow. — Gemma Malley

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. — William Poundstone

Teach me to hear mermaids singing, — John Donne

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ... — George Eliot

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

They pay me to play my drums and I love it! — Don Meredith

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding. — Halle Berry

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. — Edward Hirsch

So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions". — Tim Vine

I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I labour many years on the improvement of its quality in my compositions. — Sergei Prokofiev

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds. — Plato

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long. — Alice Walker