John Wallis Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer. — Cecelia Ahern

Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac) — Stephen Fry

'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end. — Matt Barr

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. — Mason Cooley

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it. — Jennifer Echols

So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not caught taking them seriously, so that one does not seriously play their game of hope and fear. This is why the experience of the spiritual path is so significant, why the practice of meditation is the most insignificant experience of all. — Chogyam Trungpa

When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original. — Oprah Winfrey

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history. — Edward M. Lerner

Today I know that it is a hopeless task to try to dress a man in words, make him alive again on the printed page, especially a man like Sandro. He was not the sort of person you can tell stories about, nor to whom one erects monuments
he who laughed at monuments: he lived completely in his deeds, and when they were over nothing of him remains
nothing but words, precisely. — Primo Levi

I've got a feeling that, if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say. — Charles Mingus

Lucas took Hades' place as the lord of the dead. — Josephine Angelini

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish. — Ken Bruen

Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. — Simon Raven

When you love something, you keep it to yourself. Then no one can take it from you. — Gabi Kreslehner