Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Hamill

They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy Yard, I could drink with men because I worked with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with men because I drew their pictures. The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a story that had lost its plot.

Pete Rose

If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

Pierre Trudeau

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

Pierre Trudeau

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

Phyllis Bottome

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ...

Phyllis Bottome

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

Phyllis McGinley

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

Phyllis McGinley

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

Philip Pullman

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

Philip Pullman

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence

Philip Pullman

...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they merged–although they would never truly touch.

Philip Pullman

Do not lie to the Scholar.

Rachel Cusk

Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

Rachel Cohn

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

Rachel Cohn

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

Rachel Cohn

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Rachel Carson

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

Queen Elizabeth II

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Puff Daddy

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

Puff Daddy

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

Julian Barnes

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

Terence McKenna

Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

Terence McKenna

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

Terence McKenna

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.

Terence McKenna

LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

Ted Hughes

So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.

Tecumseh

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

Randolph Bourne

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Randall Munroe

I'm not sure why we romanticize 'young love,' or love in general...It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you.

Randall Terry

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.