Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Laughlin McDonald

The court took a standard that was intelligible, easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic.

Theodor Svedberg

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

Lev Vygotsky

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Louise Bourgeois

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Vicky Rideout

The positive side of that is that TV shows and movies can really help people see the connection between what might be an abstract Washington policy issue and real people's lives, even though it's fictional real people,

Lucien Smith

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Kenneth L. Pike

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Aasif Mandvi

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

Charles Dickens

Least said, soonest mended

David Mitchell

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Brandon Sanderson

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

Birdman

A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Diane Keaton

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

Dennis Hastert

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

Bo Burnham

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me...