Trenulet Quotes & Sayings

I awoke one day to find myself famous. — Lord Byron

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory — George Santayana

The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and human rights is universal - a world free of dictators, terrorists, warmongers and fanatics, where men and women of all nationalities, races, traditions and creeds can coexist in the culture of freedom, where borders give way to bridges that people cross to reach their goals limited only by free will and respect for one another's rights. It is a search to which I've dedicated my writing, and so many have taken notice. But is it not a search to which we should all devote our very lives? The answer is clear when we see what is at stake — Mario Vargas-Llosa

And though it would not be long before even the daft Mr. Collins would discover her condition, and be forced to behead her, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and her ever deepening lust for tender morsels of savory brains had not yet lost their charm. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions. — Isabel Allende

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman. — Charles-Louis Philippe

It was in Boca Raton that I implemented a brilliant plan: If you don't look like a model, hang around kids who do. I subconsciously sought out and befriended every "beautiful" person on campus. Little did I realize I was shunning the other "real-life" kids - in other words, I was doing to them exactly what I felt like everyone had always done to me. — Gregg McBride

I wouldn't say that I was ever a fan of MTV. I was a guy on MTV. I don't think I was ever in the demographic of people who watch MTV. I never really watched MTV, so I'm definitely not a fan of 'Jersey Shore' or anything. — David Giuntoli

Nobody rides trains anymore! — Sharon M. Draper

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a ... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next. — Lee Daniels

Preacher spit on the ground and swaggered over to Billy Bob. Come on, he said, just as though nothing had happened, She's a hard one, she is, she don't want nothing but to make trouble between two good friends. For a moment it looked as if Billy Bob was going to join him in a peaceful togetherness; but suddenly, coming to his senses, he drew back and made a gesture. The boys regarded each other a full minute, all the closeness between them turning an ugly color: you can't hate so much unless you love, too. — Truman Capote

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for. — Thomas Griffith

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all. — Sam Kean

Pretend you're good at it." It seemed too simple, but it was all I had so I scrawled the words on my arm and repeated it as a mantra. — Jenny Lawson