Tradisjonell Quotes & Sayings

Really? Anyone intimidated by Barack Obama? He can't even keep Joe Biden in line. — Jay Leno

questing in real life is much harder than it's made out to be in stories. — Eric Smith

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. — Gladys Knight

Conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling. — Katherine Mansfield

Her face expressed suffering so deep that I will never forget it; her eyes radiated a deep sadness ... Mrs. Folmer was oppressed by that special sadness, perhaps the most horrible torture, of those who had no idea what happened to their loved ones. — Diet Eman

Improvisational things about picture-making ... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits]. — Dawoud Bey

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers. — Mary Hunter Austin

I ran when the going got tough, because I was so sure it was all going to end badly. The only control I had was to be the one who left, instead of the one who was left behind. — Sylvia Day

I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it. — Randy Pausch

Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people. — Young Jeezy

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault. — Pamela Sargent

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. — Lord Chesterfield

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
(Letter, April 19, 1951) — Raymond Chandler

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. — James Montgomery