Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Moody

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Richard Russo

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Edmund White

With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive.

James F. Cooper

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Sue Grafton

Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair.

Sinclair Lewis

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Robert Ludlum

Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior.

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Barnett Newman

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

David Swift

We have some bumps in the road, like code enforcement, but we're taking steps to fix that directly. Basically, I think the current council is doing a pretty good job and most residents think that is the case, too.

Romeo Miller

'Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.

Michael Rapaport

Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

Daniel Fells

Life is all about rides. This is something I've always wanted. There have been hard bumps in the road that have got me down, but never got me off track. I'm just blessed.

Rosalind Cartwright

Life is just not pleasant together when you are not rested. You don't ride the bumps of stress as well.

Doug Robinson

Luckily, nothing serious has happened, other than some minor scrapes and bumps and cuts, but the way it's going, with all the alcohol, it's just a matter of time, ... It's not a good mix the water and that many kids on makeshift rafts drinking.

Bruce Springsteen

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

James Whitcomb Riley

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

Al Sharpton

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

Edith Piaf

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

Charles Macklin

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

Billy Zane

I trust my instincts.

Katrina Kaif

I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.'

Amy Cooper

She's a tremendous middle blocker. You can't teach instinct and she has it.

Albert Einstein

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

Matisyahu

There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.

Gary Urton

We hypothesize that the arrangement of three figure-eight knots at the start of these khipu represented the place identifier, or toponym, Puruchuco,

Jeff Tittel

It's an important first step. Without it, the red knots could go the way of the passenger pigeon.

Ted Shackelford

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

Rumi

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

Aldous Huxley

Ending is better than mending.

William Shakespeare

Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.

Jonathan Safran Foer

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Alan Moore

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Alan Moore

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Alanis Morissette

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perfect love knows no because

Chogyam Trungpa

Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

James Payn

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Chris Collins

Raymond Lara is being prosecuted for who he is, not what he did and why.

Owen Heimer

This exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this state,

Denise Levertov

Images split the truth in fractions.

Deepika Padukone

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Edwin Land

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

David Allen

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

Boy George

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Jay Wright

Old school, split the house... It was cool.

Charles Bukowski

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

Brian McClung

We're not trying to split anything up. They're not together right now." ()

Adrienne Rich

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

Miles Austin

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.