Isync Quotes & Sayings

I know," he finally responded. "But it was so ... vicious. So brutal. I wish I could've just shot him from a distance with a gun or something." "Yeah. Sorry it had to go down that way." "What if I see his nasty face every night when I go to sleep? What if he's in my dreams?" He felt a surge of irritation at Brenda for making him stab the Crank - maybe unwarranted when he really considered how desperate they'd been. — James Dashner

As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them. — Brahmagupta

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept ... You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite. — Ali Mazrui

I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone. — John Lydon

He'd stolen his philosophy of editing from the old New Critics - it's just about the book. Not the author, not the market, not the reader ... one judged a book only by the book. — Tiffany Reisz

Because I look like Everyman on some level, I would say I get recognized once or twice a day. — David Costabile

Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into a world of infinite possibilities. Female characters either get married or die. This makes enlightened female readers such as ourselves pissed off. But however much we deconstruct the narrative, however vigilantly we plow and apply the theory and read with our skeptical, over-educated eyes, still some lessons are hard to fully internalize, and the dream of happily-ever-after love, in real life and in literature, dies hardest of all. — Laurie Frankel

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie. — Giulio Andreotti

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out. — Francis Bacon

Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. — Dashiell Hammett

Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep. — A.M. Hudson

We must suffer fools gladly, otherwise how can we help them stop being fools? — Elan Mastai

I leave my character behind me. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan