Gossiped Syn Quotes & Sayings

I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing. — Scott M. Gimple

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? — Dan Brown

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another. — Donald Miller

People say this all the time and everyone, like, nods their head and is like, 'Oh yeah, totally,' but no one ever does it, including myself. I can do better at it, is just drinking a lot of water, like a gallon and a half, two gallons a day, like, straight water all day. — Ronda Rousey

We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King? — Cornel West

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself — Philip Larkin

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. — James Tenney

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels. — Roger Ebert

Personality is and does something ... It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual — Gordon Allport

The problem with being young and in a singular place is that one assumes that one will inevitably find oneself in an equally foreign and exotic location at some later point in life. But this is rarely true. — Hanya Yanagihara

I believe in kindness and karma - which could make me a Buddhist. I believe in mystic healing and crystals' powers - which could make me a witch. I believe in truth, honor, and forgiveness - which could make me a Christian. I even believe in the existence of past lives and that each and every one of us is watched over by guides from the other side - which, to some, would make me totally woo-woo squared. — Emma Mildon

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies. — Imelda Marcos

Sure, but that's not going to make her happy. She has the hots for you."
"Get out."
"Buy a clue," Sophia said lightly, and stepped out again to arrange for the meeting with her
assistan — Nora Roberts

I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror. — J.G. Ballard

Being in the Final Four was a dream of mine growing up, and I was unable to fulfill that dream, but I feel like I had a great college career and won a lot of games. — Paul Pierce