Verbatim String Quotes & Sayings

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer. — Joe Elliott

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine. — John Hughlings Jackson

They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was nowhere, I was floating. I was not surprised, I knew it was the World, the naked World suddenly revealing itself, and I choked with rage at this gross, absurd being. — Jean-Paul Sartre

By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire

A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being
at least 60 per cent of the time. — Penelope Leach

The obscurity of the night was in my favour. For — Matthew Gregory Lewis

You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs. — Shikha Kaul

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. — Margaret Atwood

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible ... Her presence on screen is outstanding. — Leonardo DiCaprio