Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...

Babe Paley

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.

We're going up there and taking it one match at a time. Right now, we're just celebrating our first sectional.

This puts Orlando on the map as a medical destination.

Bashar al-Assad

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

Baruch Spinoza

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Barbara Mertz

His masculinity was only too apparent

Augustine Birrell

It is the Mass the matters.

Augustine Birrell

It is the Mass that matters.

Auguste Comte

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Augusten Burroughs

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

Augusten Burroughs

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

Arthur Koestler

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

Arthur Koestler

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.

Art Spiegelman

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

Art Buchwald

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Marijuana... That's not a drug, that's a plant.

Golshifteh Farahani

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

Geoff Stults

A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.

Kevin O'Connor

We're able to map 15 million users in the United States,

David Naughton

Yes, now, no matter what country, if you are a SAG actor, you get a SAG contract.

Yes, it's true. But Real Madrid must sign players which the technical staff needs.

We didn't want to go right in. Deploying patience was my main concern.

Craig Anderson

We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were challenging because they had to portray them in three stages of their lives, from their 20s, 40s to their 60s,

We didn't think at that time that maybe this stuff ain't too good,

Charles Fort

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.

Charles Bukowski

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Charles Bukowski

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it