Guardonline Quotes & Sayings

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing. — Heinrich Heine

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. — Oscar Wilde

But it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

To have a dream is a do or die so you have to persuade it with patience; you must have a room for challenges and a room for criticisms. — Euginia Herlihy

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. — Michael Pollan

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day. — Jodelle Ferland

Fiddler turned in his seat and met his corporal's dark eyes. Trouble? Maybe. The exchange was silent, a product of years fighting side by side. Crokus — Steven Erikson

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive. — Mary Karr

For a long time Eliot had had the theory that in Janet's mind everybody was as judgmental of her as she was of them, and if that was true then the world must be a pretty scary place for her. — Lev Grossman

Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing. — Claire Denis

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time. — E.B. White

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. — Hazel Rochman

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. — Jane Austen

We don't stop and realize that we are dealing with people-the far-left doesn't think we need a military to start with, they really don't. You've heard me say this before, they really believe if all countries would just stand in a circle and unilaterally disarm and hold hands then all threats would go away, they believe that. They would never say that but they do believe that. — James Inhofe

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5. — Queen Latifah