Sticklers Disease Quotes & Sayings

In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.' — Claude Simon

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. — Jean M. Auel

If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs. — Rick Ross

I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain. — Edward Norton

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd. — Peter Mullan

Most men give a girl a ring, you know, not threaten them with murder." Hatcher — Christina Henry

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune. — Rene Coty

When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer. — Brian Spellman

When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise. — Salman Rushdie

No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs. — Cesare Beccaria

There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city, [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting prospect, she said - a network of natural libraries for teaching children about the region's rare and fragile ecosystems - and about themselves. — Richard Louv