Unfactory Quotes & Sayings

Hilmar owns many books, even by Icelandic standards. The other day, when he came home with a wheelbarrowful, his five-year-old daughter looked him in the eye and implored, "Please, Daddy, please, no more books!" Hilmar has a stock answer to those who criticize his excessive book buying. "It is never a waste of time to study how other people wasted time. — Eric Weiner

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows. — Percy Grainger

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. — Ellen Willis

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. — Thomas Hardy

So little is our loss, So little is thy gain. — John Milton

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Where your going is the only place in the world where the geese chase you! — Ian Malcolm

I need you, Erin. You're my last hope. — Robin Bielman

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen. — Prince

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved — Charles Darwin

Wow. Tough crowd." Ty hummed and looked down at his hands, beginning the tune to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic. — Abigail Roux

In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character. — Milan Kundera

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost. — Abigail Landsbrook

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.
- Watson — Arthur Conan Doyle

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. — Helen Mirren