Stentorian Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later ... — Kazuo Ishiguro

Often a healthy obsession is an essential component of great success. — Debasish Mridha

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. — Richard Hofstadter

But what will happen, and I got this from reliable sources, is that the International Monetary Fund will skedaddle from D.C., possibly to Singapore or Beijing, and then they're going to make an IMF recovery plan for America, divide the country into concessions, and hand them over to the sovereign wealth funds. Norway, China, Saudi Arabia, all that jazz. — Gary Shteyngart

I loosened my grip on my opinions. I entered recovery for being such a know-it-all. I stopped expecting everyone to experience God or church or life like I thought it should be done. In fact, I stopped using the word should about God altogether, I sought God, and he was faithful to answer me. — Sarah Bessey

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. — Sylvia Plath

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt

I can remember Bertrand Russell telling me of a horrible dream. He was in the top floor of the University Library, about A.D. 2100. A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket. At last he came to three large volumes which Russell could recognize as the last surviving copy of Principia Mathematica. He took down one of the volumes, turned over a few pages, seemed puzzled for a moment by the curious symbolism, closed the volume, balanced it in his hand and hesitated.... — G.H. Hardy

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. — Pete Earley

Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness. — Nasir-i Khusraw

I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner. — Reese Witherspoon

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. — Elizabeth Bowen