Scanranker Quotes & Sayings

I feel like I have a little bit of a fresh ear when creating music. I'm not trying to be like anything else, cuz I have no idea what anything else is like! — Katy Perry

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete. — Jessica Ennis

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.' — Mark Billingham

I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.' — Francesco Quinn

[P]erhaps conscious experience is an irreducible entity, like space, or time, or mass. No member of that triad can be explained, much less understood, as a manifestation of either of the other two. Perhaps conscious experience, too, is such a fundamental. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

I was the kind of girl who had no latent skank huddling deep inside, — Kristen Ashley

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. — Benjamin Disraeli

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary. — Laurence Sterne

No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it. — Jerry Bridges

To the anthropologist, as I explained before, it's generic episodes and phenomena that stand out as significant, not singular ones. To the anthropologist, there's no such thing as a singular episode, a singular phenomenon - only a set of variations on generic ones; the more generic, therefore, the more pure, the closer to an unvariegated or unscrambled archetype. — Tom McCarthy

It would be stupid to rush things."
"Rush? This thing between us started three months ago."
"Yeah, in your head. — Suzanne Wright

The parsley sinking into the butter on a hot day, — Agatha Christie

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing. — Elizabeth Wurtzel