Totalising Quotes & Sayings

I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it's based on reality. That's what I try to do. — Terry Gilliam

All of us had a view from somewhere — Alexander McCall Smith

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler — Albert Einstein

The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so. — Ginny Baird

Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else. — Rachel Kushner

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. — Euripides

Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below. — Homer

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting. — Eddie Kaye Thomas

As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? — Rowan Atkinson

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts. — Paul Bryant

Candace nodded a little too hard. She loved making her ponytail swing. — Lisi Harrison

Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he's still a terrible liar. — Brandon Sanderson