Innumerous Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Check your passions that you may not be punished by them. — Epictetus

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia. — James Gleick

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story. — Wendy Wasserstein

It's fine. I use foul language and you bust up small mountains." I examined the rubble around us. "We each have our coping mechanisms. — Ashlan Thomas

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since. — J.J. Abrams

I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong. — Haruki Murakami

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not. — Lorrie Moore

Scoffin' a load of our grub an' not tellin' a story? I say, what a bally swizz! — Brian Jacques

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of. — Cary Fukunaga