Adage Def Quotes

#1. Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

Lemony Snicket

#2. And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

Paul Robeson

#3. Myrnin to Claire: If anyone comes to bite you while I'm gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly.

Rachel Caine

#4. A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

Andy Goldsworthy

#5. In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.

Robin Li

#6. So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to make 10 films a career as a filmmaker, and that's a really challenging thing.

Ira Sachs

#7. When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

Barry White

#8. Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

William Morris Hunt

#9. ... forgotten friend Mushkin ... we read. Time had erased the never, and corrected the falsehood of man.

Anton Chekhov

#10. Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

Nia Vardalos

#11. I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is ...

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.

David Auburn

#13. That's the nature of the truth, though. What's fun about being dropped into ice water? That's why half the world walks around wearing rose-colored glasses, watching comedies and reading romance books.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. And if all has gone according to plan, we have sent the brightest, the strongest, the toughest of our subjects to a safe place, where they can begin civilization anew while the rest of the world is driven to extinction.

James Dashner