Iconic 1d Quotes & Sayings

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that. — Susan Oliver

The arts are obsessional, and obsession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases - Dylan Thomas comes to mind, and Ross Lockridge and Hart Crane and Sylvia Plath - the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. Art is a localized illness, usually benign - creative people tend to live a long time - sometimes terribly malignant. You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts. And if you are wise you sift the sludge carefully ... because some of that stuff may not be dead. — Stephen King

I cannot pretend to be the person they think I am for one more day. Slowly, over time, like wallpaper, the face I have shown the world has peeled away. I am a building on the brink of being condemned. I have tried for the longest time to hide it. To show only the best sides of myself in the most flattering light at the best time of the day. — Juliann Garey

It teekles nozzing like Jock Torrance would like to teekle you, madame. — Stephen King

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And then there were the readers, Gawd bless them. We must have signed hundreds of thousands of copies for them by now. The books are often well read to the point of physical disintegration; if we run across a shiny new copy, it's usually because the owner's previous five have been stolen by friends, struck by lightning or eaten by giant termites in Sumatra. You have been warned. Oh, and we understand there's a copy in the Vatican library. It'd be nice to think so. — Terry Pratchett

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal — Henry A. Kissinger

So that was the story of who she was. The one who'd been too sensitive. Too weak. — James S.A. Corey

In order to be enchanted we must be, above all, capable of seeing another person - simply opening one's eyes will not do. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

you do not know how to give a good counsel, it is better — William Loehe

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues. — Grimes

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer

I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it. — Tim Tebow

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. — Lawrence Lessig

To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay. — Jiddu Krishnamurti