Linguee Quotes & Sayings

I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye. — Barry Tyrrell

We're really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know? — John Frusciante

Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong. — Willie Nelson

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. — Francis Bacon

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. — Neil Gaiman

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. — Walter Darby Bannard

If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form. — Ethel Lilian Voynich

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness. — George MacDonald

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa. — Carlos Santana

Define your path and travel on this path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to. — Zach Galifianakis

Nobody in England knows the real Luis Suarez. — Luis Suarez

My life is basically my work. — Temple Grandin

I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Life is an adventure. If you treat it as such, you'll enjoy it's happiness — Manny Segarra