Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Miro

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Joan Rivers

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

JJ Feild

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

Jimmy Webb

Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.

George Ade

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

Garry Kasparov

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.

Garrison Keillor

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

Francois Fenelon

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

Geddy Lee

I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.

Geddy Lee

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

Gayle Forman

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

Gary Cole

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

Edward Dahlberg

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward de Bono

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Edie Falco

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

Holly Black

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Joseph Addison

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison

The post of honour is a private station.

Jose Saramago

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

Jose Saramago

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

Jose Carreras

I've always said that music is like literature.

Jose Bergamin

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jorge Luis Borges

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Jorge Luis Borges

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

Jonathan Swift

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

Kurt Browning

Michael Weiss and Todd Eldredge and I all competed against each other. Even though Im older than them, we did cross over a little bit.

Khaled Hosseini

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.