Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Dobson

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

Francois Truffaut

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Frank Bruni

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

George Deukmejian

Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

George Crabbe

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

George Crabbe

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

Elaine Stritch

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

Elaine Stritch

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

Edward T. Hall

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Edward Weston

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

Edward de Bono

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Edward Bellamy

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Edward Albee

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

Edie Falco

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Edith Hamilton

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

Eckhart Tolle

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

Eckhart Tolle

If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.

Holly Hunter

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

Holly Black

I don't lie," I lied.

Holly Black

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

Holly Black

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

Holly Black

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Holly Black

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

Hermann Broch

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Hermann Hesse

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Hermann Hesse

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

Hermann Hesse

It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.

Henry Timrod

Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!

Henry Timrod

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

Henry Timrod

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

Henry Vaughan

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!