Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

Terry Pratchett

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

Isaac Marion

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Gail Carriger

She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

Emile M. Cioran

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Albert Schweitzer

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Stavros Cosmopulos

Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation.

John Walsh

on interesting subjects, ideas and unfamiliar artists, with many surprises for visitors.

Philip Gee

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people's ideas, to see if they're similar to mine.

Fred Brown

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Ludwig von Mises

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Charles Lyell

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Carl Jung

Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

Allen Ginsberg

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

Allen Ginsberg

Inside skull vast as outside skull

Donna Tartt

If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

Anne Michaels

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Anthony Bourdain

A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.