Splashed Paint Quotes & Sayings

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly ... Back in the day Leo Tolstoy
what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer
in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don't have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. ("Gary Shteyngart: Finding 'Love' In A Dismal Future", NPR interview, August 2, 2010) — Gary Shteyngart

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular. — Lois Lowry

It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient. — Debasish Mridha

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly. — Liza Minnelli

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it. — Finley Peter Dunne

I didn't think anyone would anticipate this move, because it was so clearly insane. — Ernest Cline

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night. — Erica Bauermeister

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it. — Jonas Salk

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language. — Suzy Kassem

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world. — Shanola Hampton

Without imperfection, you or I would not exist. — Stephen Hawking

I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices. — Sharron Angle

It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian. — Israelmore Ayivor