Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.

Sandra Bullock

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

Sandra Cisneros

I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.

Roger Scruton

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

Roger Moore

Of course I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.

Roger Ebert

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Rod McKuen

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

Rod Serling

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

Rod Serling

People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no room for them, and worse than that, there's nowhere they can find exposure. Their own good talent may die of mourning, just for want of having somebody read what they've written. I don't presume to say how we can best provide platforms for new writers to get read. I don't know. But therein lies the major problem.

Robin Morgan

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Robin McKinley

Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.

Roberto Benigni

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Roberto Benigni

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

Robert Ludlum

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

Robert M. Hutchins

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

Robert M. Gates

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

Satchel Paige

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Satchel Paige

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Sargent Shriver

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

Sarah Waters

I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

Sarah Lewis

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Sara Gruen

I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.

Sara Gruen

I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

Sara Shepard

The lie that started it all.

Sara Teasdale

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

Sara Teasdale

Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again.

Samuel Rutherford

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Samuel Johnson

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Samuel Johnson

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.