Noblemindedness Quotes & Sayings

Life has so much to offer, live it up! — Aditi Chopra

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. — Ronald Reagan

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive — Chuck Berry

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were! — Pia Zadora

Sometimes, the medication that lifts depression also kills our drive and mutes our orgasms. So sex suffers either way: be happier on meds and feel dead "down there," or be miserable because you can't get out of bed much less want to get back in. — Laurie Watson

Instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the — Jane Austen

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics. — Michael Scott

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance. — George Bernard Shaw

Any power structure one of whose main goals was to prevent humans from fucking each other at will had to be extremely formidable. — Neal Stephenson

But suspense presupposes uncertainty. No matter how nightmarish the situation, real suspense is impossible when we know in advance that the protagonist will prevail (as we would if Woolrich had used series characters) or will be destroyed. This is why, despite his congenital pessimism, Woolrich manages any number of times to squeeze out an upbeat resolution. Precisely because we can never know whether a particular novel or story will be light or dark, allegre or noir, his work remains hauntingly suspenseful.
("Introduction") — Francis M. Nevins Jr.

Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in those days, nor as straight either. But Bill was cool, and the men who he went up against were rattled, I guess. Bill beat them to it. He made up his mind to kill the other man before the other man had finished thinking. — Buffalo Bill

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius. — Thomas Carlyle

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write. — Jeff VanderMeer

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts. — Tom Schulman

But what Liberty would remember best was the feel of his own small hand gathered in the warm, comforting grip of the man, those times alone when all of Thatcher's potent attention was concentrated on his son, as something inside Liberty always insisted, occasionally to contrary evidence that it should be, their trips together, their talks, the information about the sorry state of the world Thatcher shared reluctantly, almost sadly, with his son and heir out of a conviction that I do not enjoy having to tell you these things, but it is important you hear this news, no matter how distasteful, because, unfortunately, it is the truth, whereas it is lies and the promulgation of lies that will make you and the people in your life sick. — Stephen Wright

We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us. — Harper Lee