Top 100 Quotations And Sayings
#1. Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.
Fergus Kerr
#2. Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.
Philip Zaleski
#3. Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.
Stephanie S. Tolan
#4. The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag
#5. I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
#6. Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
Gary Saul Morson
#7. I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.
Ezra Taft Benson
#9. Countries who don't have brave prosecutors and fearless judges will instead have plenty of thieves, many killers and even stupid dictators!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.
Blake Mycoskie
#11. I met Rob in Austin, Texas. He was hitchhiking to California and I was driving to California, so it seemed like a perfect match. He had long blond hair and blue eyes and golden skin and so did I. It was like falling in love with myself.
Lorena Cassady
#12. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.
Elena Ferrante
#13. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.
Jonathan Culler
#15. During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.
Mark R. Jones
#16. Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#20. Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available.
Cassandra Duffy
#21. A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. It's easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.
Terry A. O'Neal
#23. The greatest fools in the universe are men who think they are smarter than women.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. Three years to make a book, five lines to ridicule it, and the quotations wrong.
Albert Camus
#26. Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.
Marjorie Garber
#27. Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster,
Steven Pinker
#28. You can't see the world from your window and likewise the world cannot see you as well! Go out, come nearer to the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. Love + truth = strength
Love + knowledge = influence
Love + understanding = power
Love + wisdom = enlightenment
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind
Barry Hughart
#36. When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Oh, drat the men! No matter what they do, it's the wrong thing. And no matter who they are, it's somebody they shouldn't be. They do exasperate me.
Anne's House of Dreams
L.M. Montgomery
#40. Minds of people need a good revolution and great quotations are good revolutionists!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and would never be found. They put in the paperwork that Emirates Airlines had lost it, although we knew for sure it was all stolen by those girls in the airport of our first departure.
Sahara Sanders
#42. Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, - it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock
#45. If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Don't eat earwax avoid roasted cabbage and look on the bright side of life -Angela
Christopher Paolini
#48. But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.
Jane Austen
#50. The strongest bond in the universe is when two souls unite to become one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. His Grace called Virginius in and said: "Do you think a priest of the Anglican Communion should be a divorced man with two wives living?" That's the way he talks. And do you know what Virginius said? He said: "Your Grace, if it weren't for divorce, there wouldn't be an Anglican Communion.
Florence King
#53. Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!
Tanya Masse
#54. A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
Jonathan Swift
#55. The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. In my family nudity just doesn't exist; I'm pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.
Huston Piner
#58. Kiss a woman's lips, and you have her for a moment; kiss a woman's soul, and you have her for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.
Saurabh Sharma
#62. And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.
Nicole Lyons
#63. In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan
#64. Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?
Virginia Woolf
#65. Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.
Salman Aditya
#66. Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Nicolas Chamfort
#67. There was too much at stake for him not to attempt it! He had to win! And he had to win big!
Avijeet Das
#68. If all else fails, stop drop and roll..works for me..
Melissa Mercer
#69. Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity ... I'm close enough to walk!
Tanya Masse
#70. Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. He understood the language of the trees. He spoke to the trees and they spoke back to him!
Avijeet Das
#73. Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.
Chriswell Freeman
#74. Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#75. A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#76. Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. Since I can remember, for some reason, I was always "not like others," and it was presented by everyone like there was something wrong with me; only becoming more grown up and mature, I realized that to be special and different from the crowd is my biggest value and happiness.
Sahara Sanders
#79. The great gift of American democracy is freedom to think, act, and carry out our lives in a manner that imbues meaning not only to our own life but enhances other people's lives through our everyday actions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#80. Everyone says,
Come to your senses, and I do, of you.
Every touch electric, every taste you,
every smell, even burning sugar, every
cry and laugh. Toothpicked samples
at the farmers' market, every melon,
plum, I come undone, undone.
Dean Young
#81. Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. There is one thing we are sure: For the honor of humanity, all the kings and all the queens, all the kingdoms and all the monarchies must be abolished!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. You have been the summary of my entire existence; my biggest weakness, my greatest strength. The weathers of my life start and end with you. You complete me.
Sapan Saxena
#86. A dreamer rises above their inherent fearfulness that they will always produce inferior work and grants oneself a license to put forth their best effort.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#87. The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
Ethel Smyth
#88. The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.
Stewart Stafford
#89. You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.
Amit Kalantri
#90. With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [ ... ]
Charles Dickens
#91. Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. The way to the place you wish to go can always be found; just behave like a river, that is to say, firstly, move and secondly, move with no hesitation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
Holly Black
#94. I'll be fine. Maybe I should make up a magic milk bath with the Golden Fruit, huh?" I laughed.
Kishan considered and grinned. "A giant bowlful of milk with you in the middle might be a little too much for us cats to resist.
Colleen Houck
#96. When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#97. All in all, even some kinds of unexpected and ridiculous disappointments couldn't diminish the astonishment of being in this place with its spectacular nature.
Sahara Sanders
#98. If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. Quote from In Love of Honey, Money....and My Virgin Passport
If you think you've the most wicked sense of humour, try life!
Mita Jain
#100. In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don't differ from science.
Virchand Gandhi
