Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Carlos Castaneda

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Carlos Castaneda

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carl Andre

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

C. S. Lewis

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

C. S. Lewis

Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Arthur Wing Pinero

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Deepak Chopra

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

A. N. Wilson

I had lost faith in biography.

Conrad Veidt

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Martin Lewis Perl

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

H. G. Wells

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

George Bernard Shaw

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Mick Jagger

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Brian Greene

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Ben Okri

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

B. Carroll Reece

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

William Shakespeare

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Bob Goin

One thing I will say is that Kenyon is never going to be able to erase the great memories I have of him and I'm sure that's true for our fans, ... He was a model for future players. I have great respect for what he accomplished here.

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.