Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

Anne Fortier

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Anne Hathaway

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

Anjelica Huston

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

Ann Aguirre

He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

Ann Aguirre

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

Ann Aguirre

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

Ann Aguirre

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.

Andrew Vachss

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

Andrew Weil

I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.

Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They're all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I'll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are eventually going to get fed up of it.

Andres Iniesta

If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Chuck Palahniuk

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

Chuck Palahniuk

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Chuck Palahniuk

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Chuck Palahniuk

I know this because Tyler knows this.

Chuck Palahniuk

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Chuck Palahniuk

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

Chuck Palahniuk

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

Chuck Palahniuk

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

Chuck Palahniuk

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Chuck Palahniuk

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Chuck Berry

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Chuck D.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

Chuck D.

Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." They need to keep themselves out there. I have never had that fear. If I have any fear, it's not doing enough to reach people.

Christopher Reeve

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.