Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.

Albert Schweitzer

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

Charles Spurgeon

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

Dick Van Dyke

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

Diane Lane

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

Dennis Rodman

I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

Dennis Rodman

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

Dennis Prager

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Dennis Prager

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Charles Spurgeon

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Charles Olson

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

Diane Paulus

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Demosthenes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Deborah Tannen

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.