Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Lowell

Even pain pricks to livelier living.

Amy Poehler

I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).

Amy Poehler

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

Ally Carter

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

Allen Klein

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Allen Klein

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Allen Ginsberg

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Allen Ginsberg

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Alison McGhee

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.

Ann Jillian

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

Ann Jillian

I want all my pain to count for something.

Ann Brashares

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Ann Coulter

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

Andy Behrman

Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

Andy Dick

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Andrea Corr

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

Andrea Gibson

Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.

Andrea Gibson

Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

Andrea Gibson

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Alan Cohen

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

Alan Cohen

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

Alan Cohen

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

Alan Cohen

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

William Shakespeare

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Adam Hamilton

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

Adam Hamilton

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

Ada Leverson

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

Ada Cambridge

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.