Locutory Quotes & Sayings

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book. — James Joyce

To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall. — Mason Cooley

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. — Alphonsus Liguori

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. — Andre Malraux

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author. — Peter Greenaway

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired. — Charlie Munger

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact. — Conor Oberst

We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. — Confucius

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back. — Swami Vivekananda

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. — Francis Spufford

As I sometimes do when I'm overwhelmed, I started to giggle like a maniac. — Angela Pepper

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. — John C. Maxwell