Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Davis

I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.

Clive Davis

The adage that you are either gay or straight or you are lying. Well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist

Clive Barker

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

Dylan Moran

Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now

e. e. cummings

one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

Dustin Hoffman

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

Douglas Kennedy

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Douglas Horton

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

Douglas Hofstadter

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Douglas Hofstadter

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

Douglas Coupland

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.

Andy Warhol

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

Andrew Peterson

Winter is where hope lies happy.

Andre Braugher

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

Andre Gide

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

Angel Haze

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

Aneurin Bevan

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

Anatole France

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Anatole France

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

Anatole France

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anais Nin

We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

Anais Nin

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

Anais Nin

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

Anais Nin

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

Anais Nin

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

Anais Nin

I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.

Anais Nin

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

Anais Nin

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Anais Nin

Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

Amanda Plummer

I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

Alvin Toffler

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.