Best Quotes
Emile M. Cioran
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
Danny Brown
I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.
Peter Ustinov
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Olivia Williams
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
Sri Chinmoy
A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.
Karl Kraus
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
One of the great things about this genie [from Aladdin] is that when Robin Williams created him, and they created this after him, they were allowed to go crazy and when they had to go find someone to play the role live, they had to find someone who was nutty enough to go in different directions.
Anne Lamott
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
Jonathan Raban
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound.
The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can take control. You can do something to keep bad things from happening to your children and to keep life from throwing you curveballs.
Robert Benchley
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you meditate on the Holy Scriptures, you mind shall me on the Jesus Christ, the Saviour,
You will never feel loved until you love yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
Thomas Adams
We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.
Neil Degrasse Tyson
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
Sara Teasdale
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Hannah Lillith Assadi
My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.
Josephine Angelini
I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.
Andrew Wyeth
God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy.
John Keats
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
Darynda Jones
I noticed you tore down Donovan's house." He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.
G. S. Jennsen
The Anadens have a somewhat different perspective on death.” “On account of not having to deal with it, sure. Personally, I think their little immortality contrivance has destroyed the value of life for them.” “It brought you back.” “Thus I reserve the right to be hypocritical on this particular topic.
Kim Fielding
Se vuoi, posso provare a leggere ad alta voce. Non… non sono ancora molto bravo, ma…” “Mi piacerebbe,” lo interruppe Gray con voce bassa. “M-mi manca leggere. Mi… mi manca co-così tanto!” Aric fece finta di non sentire i suoni che Gray emetteva nel tentativo di soffocare i singhiozzi. C’erano occasioni in cui un uomo desiderava conforto, altre in cui trovava maggiore dignità nell’essere lasciato solo.
Isabel Paterson
The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God. But he is confronted by two awkward facts; first, that the competent do not need his assistance; and second, that the majority of people positively do not want to be "done good" by the humanitarian. Of course, what the humanitarian actually proposes is that he shall do what he thinks is good for everybody. It is at this point that the humanitarian sets up the guillotine.
Frederic Chopin
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of the libraries.
Sarah Bessey
The night that our friend's wife died, my brokenhearted husband called his mother: "What do I say?"... There is nothing to say. Stop thinking there is something to say to make it go away. It won't go away. Abandon your answers. Avoid your cliches. Don't blame God and don't blame him. Learn to sit in the sadness.
Time seemed to drag with dreamlike slowness, like a knife through cold honey, and the room took on a surreal golden sheen as if I was looking through that same jar of honey. Maybe at that moment, the sun shone just right though the grimy windows, but the woman, the shelves, the jars, everything in the room appeared in tones of gold and sepia, except for the painting behind the counter. From behind the shopkeeper's head, a fluorescent Mary and Jesus glared at me, their cartoon-like faces reproaching me for being there.
Marc Andreessen
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
Mitchell Hurwitz
The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Delight yourself in the Lord. He shall give you all the desires of your heart.
Sharon Salzberg
To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.
It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.
Sonny Rollins
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
Ben Folds
It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
Stonewall Jackson
If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.
Katy Perry
I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'
Peter Cameron
It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman—I was thinking about my own tendencies toward aloneness and I thought I could end up like that woman, with a bird perhaps, or a dog—probably a dog, I know birds are supposed to make good pets but I think there’s something creepy about them—but alone with a life that didn’t touch or overlap with anyone else’s, a sort of hermetically sealed life.
Cary-hiroyuki Tagawa
I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.
Scott Cohen
Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.
Ang Lee
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Sunday Adelaja
A product is supposed to be what you are intentionally producing with your life at least every month.