Sonsd Quotes & Sayings

I'm tired of looking for something that will never be there. I've looked for it on the edge of a blade and at the bottom of a bottle. It's not there. It's just ... gone. — Kathryn Perez

To the last we will have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets, that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished. No one can accept that an imperial has been annihilated by men with bows and arrows and rusty old guns who live in tents and never wash and cannot read or write. And who am I to jeer at life-giving illusions? Is there any better way to pass these last days than in dreaming of a saviour with a sword who will scatter the enemy hosts and forgive us the errors that have been committed by others in our name and grant us a second chance to build our earthly paradise? — J.M. Coetzee

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever. — Tommy Lee

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here. — Bill Kreutzmann

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic. — Yotam Ottolenghi

We are invited to drink the the king's health.
To his good health or bad health? - Ash — Cinda Williams Chima

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. — Willa Cather

The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd. — John Hagel III

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions. — Barbara Corcoran

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules. — Anne Roiphe

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it. — Steven Zaillian