Presenterer Quotes & Sayings

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. — Steve Almond

Literature exists because the world isn't enough. — Fernando Pessoa

No doubt he is more than that, but we have no time to inquire. — Sara Levine

Spend the glittering moonlight there
Pursuing down the soundless deep
Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair,
Or floating lazy, half-asleep.
Dive and double and follow after,
Snare in flowers, and kiss, and call,
With lips that fade, and human laughter
And faces individual,
Well this side of Paradise! ...
There's little comfort in the wise. — Rupert Brooke

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often. — Meg Ryan

Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor. — David Sedaris

Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected. — Plato

I think violence can never be justified. — Abbas Kiarostami

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. — Arsene Wenger

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to. — Madonna Ciccone

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return! — James Altucher

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch

Wonder is the seed of knowledge — Francis Bacon

Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person. — Owain Yeoman