Mediaite News Quotes & Sayings

Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold
that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give
up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will
never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de-
struction. — Rebecca Solnit

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play. — Doc Watson

I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still. — Steve Goodier

Had the ancient Greek poet Archilochus and the modern philosopher Isaiah Berlin been magically transported to northern Italy in November of 218 B.C., they might well have speculated on the strategic prospects. "Hannibal knows many things, but Rome knows one big thing," the Greek might have proposed. To which Berlin might have replied, "Perhaps at the outset. But then the fox could get stuck in a rut, and the hedgehog might learn new tricks." This would have been the Second Punic War epitomized. — Anonymous

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it! — Albert Einstein

He waited until he heard sounds of sleep, which didn't take long. Then he prayed, to the Devil. — Mark Kirkbride

My reality is the misconceptions about me. — Tori Spelling

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. — John Boyd Orr

The finger that turns the dial rules the air. — Will Durant

God desires to teach us how to submit to others and how to take the second place — Sunday Adelaja

The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe how humans are biologically inclined to turn complex realities into soothing but oversimplified stories. — Anonymous

I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city. — Lil' Wayne

Abu Dhabi is the hub of hell in August. — Jane Bristol-Rhys

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us. — Kofi Annan

Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process. — Connor Franta