Sorable Quotes & Sayings

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really. — Noah Hawley

Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things - that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art. — Osamu Dazai

Mastery is proven only in limitation,
and law alone can give us freedom. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think. — Rachel Zucker

If I had to point to one invention in my lifetime that separated howling barbarism from civilized existence, it would be coffee. — Edward W. Robertson

An evil discovered is half healed. — Jane Frances De Chantal

Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces. — Patti Roberts

Nobody tells you that large houses have this horrible habit of making you feel utterly alone. — Holly Bourne

When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. — Sengcan

A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other. — Richard Savage

Don't marry the man you can live with, but marry the man you can't live without. — James C. Dobson

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life. — Anthony Capella

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. While one drowns us the other gnaws us. If we survive the teeth, we succumb to the waves. A man who can destroy illusions is both beast and flood. Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a parched cinder. It is marl we tread and fiery cobbles scorch our feet. By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life - (and so on for six pages if you will, but the style is tedious and may well be dropped). — Virginia Woolf