Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

Terry Pratchett

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

Terry Pratchett

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

Terry Pratchett

I hate cats." Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. "I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.

Terry Pratchett

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

Terry Pratchett

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

Terry Pratchett

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

Terry Pratchett

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case...

Terry Gilliam

I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

Terry Goodkind

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

Terry Goodkind

Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

Terry Goodkind

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Terri Windling

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Tennessee Williams

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

Tennessee Williams

I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

Tennessee Williams

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Terence McKenna

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

Ted McGinley

I'm very proud of my faith. So, it's not so much (being embarrassed by it). It's just it is really personal. It's not one of those things I'm willing to compromise. I don't have to bounce it off other people. I'm not willing to take judgment on what I believe - and I would hate to not live up to it. That's just not fair.

Randall Munroe

If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Seimone Augustus

I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's livesI never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

Seimone Augustus

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

Selena Gomez

Haters can keep on hating.

Sean Lennon

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

Sean Lennon

What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

Sean Hannity

I hate when people use my tactics against me.

Sean Hannity

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

Sean Hannity

Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what freedom represents, hates the fact that we fight for freedom worldwide, hates our prosperity, hates our way of life? Have we been unwilling to face that very difficult reality?

Si Robertson

I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When you’re in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you don’t care any more. You’re in a place that’s foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you don’t like you and want you to die.