Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Swift

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

Jim Butcher

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

Jim Butcher

Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

Jim Butcher

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

H. P. Lovecraft

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

H. P. Lovecraft

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

H. G. Wells

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

George Herbert

The wind in ones face makes one wise.

Jean de la Bruyere

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

Jean de la Bruyere

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Jean de la Bruyere

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Jean de la Bruyere

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Jay-Z

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Mike Rowe

Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

Mickey Rourke

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Kenneth Turan

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

Kenneth Tynan

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

Julia Cameron

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

Julia Cameron

Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

Julia Cameron

Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.

Julia Cameron

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Julia Cameron

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Julia Cameron

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

Joseph Joubert

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Joseph Joubert

Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness,

Joseph Smith, Jr.

We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.