Simitive Quotes & Sayings

I am really bad at actually interviewing people. — Graham Norton

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain. — Glen Duncan

Faced with a wealth of text but a poverty of context, scholars have focused obsessively on what they can know. They have counted every word he wrote, logged every dib and jot. They can tell us (and have done so) that Shakespeare's works contain 138,198 commas, 26,794 colons, and 15,785 question marks; that ears are spoken of 401 times in his plays; that dunghill is used 10 times and dullard twice; that his characters refer to love 2,259 times but to hate just 183 times; that he used damned 105 times and bloody 226 times, but bloody-minded only twice; that he wrote hath 2,069 times but has just 409 times; that all together he left us 884,647 words, made up of 31,959 speeches, spread over 118,406 lines. — Bill Bryson

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery. — Arthur Smith

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write. — Linda Conrad

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish. — Raymond Tallis

I do love the idea of ritual. — Sarah Silverman

Avoid scoffers.
Ignore doubters.
Reject mockers.
Surprise detractors. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness. — Rick Warren

The other, more serious problem associated with cosmetic surgery is that conventional treatments often give people a very unnatural, blank, or stretched look. Wiping all the character from a person's face is the most profound form of identity theft I can imagine. — Marie-Veronique Nadeau

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh