Truism Example Quotes & Sayings

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! — Alice James

I'm an animal activist. Many people say that I'm a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won't wear fur. But I'm not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur. — Paris Hilton

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening. — Chad Kroeger

Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it's easy to excite them; it's easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement - another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name. — Dejan Stojanovic

It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do. — Anne Fadiman

The key to every man is his thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it. — Ian McKellen

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. — Annie Leibovitz

It doesn't hurt, she explains. And there is no darkness, not the kind they imagine. Everything is composed of webs and lattices and upheavals of sound and texture. — Anthony Doerr