Fictitious Names Quotes

#1. When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

Karen Salmansohn

#2. The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,
simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

Herman Melville

#3. A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

Alan Rickman

#4. Don't judge a book by its cover. Mom is always saying that, but most of the time, I think that's exactly what people are asking us to do: Please. Judge me by my cover. Judge me by exactly what I've worked so hard to show you.

Aaron Hartzler

#5. When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

James A. Baldwin

#6. Patient is a persistent act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

George Orwell

#8. Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work ... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.

Tertullian

#9. It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

Barbara Steele

#10. Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

Haruki Murakami

#11. Love can make the difference-love generously given in childhood and reaching through the awkward years of youth ... and encouragement that is quick to compliment and slow to criticize

Gordon B. Hinckley

#12. Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.

Leo Tolstoy