Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

Chris Chelios

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

David Mitchell

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

Bryan Stevenson

I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.

Caroline Kennedy

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Catherynne M. Valente

Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Alan Watts

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Al Pacino

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Al Pacino

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Chris Bohjalian

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Chita Rivera

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

Chad Harbach

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

Bryan Davis

No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

Mark Kennedy

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Joseph Campbell

Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

Rob Cohen

I think there's a love of infamy and heroism that doesn't play into the zeitgeist,

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The will to be oneself is heroism

Napoleon Bonaparte

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

Erich Segal

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Harry Anderson

This is another blow. But we're actually walking a little taller because of the heroism at some of our hospitals.

James Geary

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.