633 Quotes

#1. What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

Gene Wolfe

#2. Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

Roberto Bolano

#3. She suspects you're a much better writer than a person.

Anonymous

#4. She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor.

Sinclair Lewis

#5. Music is the emotional life of most people.

Leonard Cohen

#6. So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Thomas Hooker

#7. A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

Jack Dempsey

#8. Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

Christopher Walken

#9. A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Albert Camus

#11. Life will test you, hurt you, betray you, break you, swallow you, shatter you... but as long as it doesn't leave you, you still have a shot.

Manoj Vaz

#12. Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political life.

Aristotle.

#13. The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'

CJ Adams

#14. She was probably the best-looking almost-criminal in the history of girls who were about to go to prison.

Sara Shepard

#15. Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

Sarada Devi

#16. The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

Mark Shields