Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Close

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.

Christopher Morley

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Christopher Morley

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

Andrew Cohen

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Andrew Carnegie

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Amos Oz

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Amos Oz

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

Amos Oz

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Amos Oz

You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.

Amos Oz

Literature is about telling stories.

Amos Oz

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

Anthony de Mello

Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

Anne Stevenson

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Angela Lansbury

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

Anne Rice

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

Anne Rice

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Anna Deavere Smith

Each person has a literature inside them.

Anita Brookner

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

Andy Lally

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

Ambrose Bierce

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Ambrose Bierce

NOVEL, n. A short story padded...

Anthony Horowitz

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

Alison Bechdel

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

Alice Walker

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

Amy Lowell

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Ann Brashares

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

Ann Coulter

I'm not going to be lectured to.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Aesop

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

Aeschylus

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.