Nonfictional Quotes

#1. I rarely remember the names or faces of nonfictional people

Chuck Klosterman

#2. Be so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what it takes, but understand, please, that you are nonfictional, and this is real life.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

Frederick Lenz

#4. If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#5. I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.

Michael Ovitz

#6. I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

Olivia Wilde

#7. In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Richard Armour

#8. Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Jean Racine

#9. Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

Tony Abbott

#10. Indifference is not exactly a reaction I'm used to from women. Frankly, it's a little hard to take. I feel my jaw clench ...

Emma Chase

#11. Deep blackness waits outside;
a veiled inferno it attempts to hide.
We see no more than dark clouds growing,
but set inside, a fire is glowing.

Craig Froman

#12. The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

Jennifer Stone

#13. One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?'

Larry The Cable Guy

#14. Every time I'd go out drinking I was looking for something new. But it was the same every time. I'd wake up in some bed with some person, I had a hangover and a show to do. And the truth is, it was the same every time. But now life is ... pretty interesting without the alcohol.

James Hetfield