Luminite Quotes & Sayings

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it? — Dorothy Parker

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction. — James Hetfield

The map was one thing and the land quite another. — George R R Martin

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

You've got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing. — Bill Gates

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller

I write garbage and people buy it — Michael Pease

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously. — Stephen L. Carter

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out. — Giuliana Sgrena

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. — Newt Gingrich

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not. — Clayton Christensen

Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements. — Doris Kearns Goodwin