Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

Stephen King

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Stephen King

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Stephanie Miller

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

Sophie Thompson

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Sophie Swetchine

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

Sophia Bush

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

Taylor Swift

There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.

Taylor Swift

I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Stacy Keibler

Show kindness and respect to everyone. Pure intentions make the biggest difference.

Stacy Keibler

I just can really adapt to any kind of environment.

Stephenie Meyer

What kind of an idiotic question is that?

Stephenie Meyer

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

Sophie Turner

Im a Rihanna, Beyonce kind of person.

Thomas Haden Church

I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f - king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.

Thomas Gray

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

Thomas Hardy

Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Thomas Hardy

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Thomas Hardy

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Thomas Hobbes

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

Thomas Hobbes

It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.

Tim Ryan

It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We’ll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.

Tim Burton

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing...

Tim Burton

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Thomas Jefferson

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

Thomas Frank

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

Thomas Friedman

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

Thomas Beecham

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

William Wycherley

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

William Wordsworth

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

William Wordsworth

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

William Shenstone

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.