Top 100 With An Quotes
#1. Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.
Sholem Asch
#2. By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do not refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor. There's a reason vampires aren't known for their senses of humour.
If you accidentally do so, I'd say run, but it's probably already too late.
Jacqueline Carey
#3. Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.
Lino Rulli
#4. Very few plays would work well with an altar as a fixed centerpiece.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.
Clint Eastwood
#6. Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire
our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome
vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)
Alexandra Ivy
#8. Direct costs per student, compared with an economy-wide cost index
William G. Bowen
#9. A mother with an infant but without a father was not welcomed in the new world. "You kilt it." "She kilt it." "I had no milk for it," she answered back.
Edna O'Brien
#10. Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.
Alfred Gough
#12. If talent is a natural aptitude for creation with an outlook on life peculiar to oneself, then genius is to have an outlook on life, peculiar to oneself, which yet appeals to everybody. Talent is for oneself and a few others, but genius is universal.
D.E. Stevenson
#13. Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.
Marilyn Monroe
#14. I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.
Lee Majors
#15. Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#16. A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.
Sam Storms
#17. We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.
David Platt
#18. But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
Dweezil Zappa
#19. I love the morning sun because it enlightens my heart and teaches me how to love others with an abundance of warmth and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#20. All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.
George Lindsey
#21. Their mutual gravitational attraction will ultimately cause them to collapse inward, in manifest disagreement with an apparently static universe.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#22. Always give away your pure love without expecting any love in return. The universe will fill your heart with an abundance of love, joy and happiness again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#23. We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.
Sy Montgomery
#24. If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski
#25. The first time we met he shot me in the head with an electric staple gun, but our relationship has evolved in the subsequent months.
Ben H. Winters
#26. O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
Pablo Neruda
#27. An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
Evan Esar
#28. I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.
John Woolman
#29. The sight of men filled her with an old, slow, strange mixture of tenderness and terror.
Peter S. Beagle
#30. The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
Jacques Lacan
#31. Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.
Theophile Gautier
#32. Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.
Max Levchin
#33. But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.
Mindy McGinnis
#34. Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
Charlotte Bronte
#35. The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
Tom Peters
#36. Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.
Steve Aylett
#37. Our praying needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage that never fails.
E. M. Bounds
#38. Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
Roald Dahl
#39. After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Mason Cooley
#40. Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
Hugo Ball
#41. A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
D. B. Weiss
#42. If you ask, flowers and plants will tell you many stories. God can talk through them, and if you ask them, they will raise their hands if they know they can help you with an illness.
Mabel Katz
#43. If that was not enough, Franklin also kept his exhausted younger cohort awake far into the night with an interminable disquisition on colds.
John Ferling
#44. What motivates people to be late? ... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.
Harvey MacKay
#45. When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
Ian McKellen
#46. In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.
Isabel Allende
#47. You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.
Matt Corby
#48. This is the woman I'm t' marry! Where have ye been all me life, me love?"
And without a blink, I replied, "Don't start with me, ye scoundrel! If ye come with an empty purse, ye can leave now, fer I'd rather be unwed than unfed.
Karen Hawkins
#49. There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
David Dastmalchian
#50. The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#51. I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider New York my home, and L.A. a place that I go. I always say I go with an empty sack and try to fill it with as much money as possible to bring back to New York.
Julie White
#52. I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.
Ronald Reagan
#53. The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
out of them.
Edward Abbey
#54. It's very easy to not know the stuff that you should know about the patient when you're seeing them. It's much easier with an electronic system to find them, because it's all right there and it should be current.
William Davis
#55. You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.
Peter Straub
#56. That was the problem with an eight-figure gorilla of a client. It took all of your time and attention. Old clients dried up and died away. New clients were not cultivated. His complacency had come back to bite him right in the ass. He
David Baldacci
#57. The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart.
Fennel Hudson
#58. I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.
Jon Stewart
#59. Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#60. We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.
Jan De Bont
#61. pity very often - not always - comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt.
Dean Koontz
#62. I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.
Harper Lee
#63. With an utterly foreign sense of desperation, he did something that he'd never, in all his thirty-three years, thought he would do. He tripped her.
Rhyannon Byrd
#64. Sorry, baby. Let's get out of here, he says, speaking with the intense, strained tones of a man with an erection.
Neal Stephenson
#65. The kiss wasn't an intrusion; it was a question. Morrigan answered it with an exclamation mark.
P.C. Cast
#66. Expressing an opinion with an empty soul can complicate your duty of respecting the opinions of others.
Vasilios Karpos
#67. Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.
Dave Reichert
#68. A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
Louis L'Amour
#70. If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.
Pope Francis
#71. Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower.
David Mitchell
#72. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.
Harold Bloom
#73. An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
Debra Winger
#74. You notice, by the way, that we never have a meeting with an alien. It's always an encounter.
Jack McDevitt
#75. There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.
Frank McCourt
#76. Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.
Paul Hawken
#77. I woke up with an unfamiliar taste in my mouth, part sweet part sour, it took me days to realize this was simply hope.
Jodi Picoult
#78. Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
Zach Woods
#79. Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#80. The moonlight covered the tombstones with an ethereal glow, and the statues
above the tombs stood like silent guards waiting for something to happen.
Alan Kinross
#81. He was filled with an urge to find something
... someone.
An urge to feel whole again ...
Lauren Kate
#82. Maybe the point was to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, maybe that was the only aim you needed in life. It
Matt Haig
#83. Those were people launched into an exodus of biblical proportions, pushed only by the will to survive; beings weighed down with an enormous list of frustrations and tangible losses with gazes from which even dignity had disappeared.
Leonardo Padura
#84. Intrapreneurs work and lead with the Producer mindset. They run their department, team, or company with an abundance mentality, an attachment to true principles, and a fearless and informed faith in people and quality.
Oliver DeMille
#85. Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.
Pope Francis
#86. So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
Octavia Butler
#87. When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.
Christopher McQuarrie
#88. Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
Howard Gardner
#89. I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.
James Meade
#90. The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.
Fady Joudah
#91. Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'
Jay Sankey
#92. There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Samuel Johnson
#93. With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
George Santayana
#94. I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.
Russell Brand
#95. There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
Daniel Dae Kim
#96. The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
David Mamet
#97. However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
William Cobbett
#98. You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
Harvey Diamond
#99. For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
Marc Almond
#100. Shylock repointed his twitching, accusatory digit at his daughter. "You do not say such things in my house. You - you - you - you - " "Run along, love, it appears that Papa's been stricken with an apoplexy of the second person.
Christopher Moore
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