Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

Aeschylus

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Aeschylus

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Jane Austen

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Jane Austen

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Jane Austen

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

Jared Diamond

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

Janet Jackson

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

Lorde

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Richard G. Scott

A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Brian Wilson

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Brian Eno

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Brent Weeks

You have to be a little bad to make history.

Bram Stoker

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

Boris Kodjoe

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

Billy Crystal

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

Billy Collins

I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we're drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Brad Wenstrup

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

Bonnie McKee

Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.

Bono

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

Barry Long

Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman.

Barbara Bush

I'm a little old-fashioned.

Antonio Machado

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

Brother Lawrence

It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.

Edwidge Danticat

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Edward Young

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Elie Wiesel

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

Edward R. Murrow

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.