Lakners Quotes & Sayings

I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire. — Laurence Sterne

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it. — Bob Woodward

The novel ... creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience. — V.S. Pritchett

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. — Stephen Hawking

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters. — Nicole Kidman

My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch. — Max Casella

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there — Theodore Roosevelt

Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed. — Rand Paul

Glamour is really fun. — Annette Bening

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? — Pablo Neruda

A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. It was because of that boy that I returned to Akbar. — Paulo Coelho

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind. — Alan Brien

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk. — L.J.Smith