Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Edgar Wright

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Andy Warhol

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Don DeLillo

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Calista Flockhart

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

Chris Wedge

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Francine Pascal

I always had a fascination with twins.

Fredric Jameson

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

Joshua Lederberg

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Paul Bettany

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

Alan Paton

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

Dean Koontz

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Charlotte Sullivan

Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.

Nathalie Sarraute

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.