Quotes by Categories

Quotes with SAID Category

Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see what happens.

A. A. Milne

happens said rabbits

There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

A. E. Hotchner

payment matter said

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

A. E. Housman

poetry-is said way

I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.

A. J. Jacobs

rings lord said

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

A. R. Ammons

risk poet said

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

Aaliyah

top-secret secret said

Quotes with HAPPENS Category

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

A. S. Byatt

academic novelists happens

You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

Bai Ling

able acting happens

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

Barack Obama

members congress happens

What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

D. James Kennedy

matter happens

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Dodie Smith

things-happen happens

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

e. e. cummings

mystery happens

Quotes with MONSTERS Category

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

J. J. Abrams

issues monsters fiction

I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn't faint dead away.

Jack Kirby

intriguing saws monsters

Not all the monsters have fangs.

Jack London

real-life real monsters

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

Jackie Earle Haley

horror aliens monsters

She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her closet, that everything would be okay. But that was a lie. The demon was in her head, telling her she was too fat. She had to get the demon out. But she couldn't do it by herself.

Jackie Morse Kessler

would-be monsters lying

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

angel important monsters

Quotes with KINDNESS Category

To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

J. I. Packer

christian kindness sex

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

J. C. Ryle

doubt kindness son

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Jack Canfield

practice kindness beauty

Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

Jack H. Goaslind

dream kindness father

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Jack Kerouac

practice kindness heaven

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

Jack Kornfield

kindness heart hands

Quotes with PLAY Category

We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.

Q-Tip

being-yourself play people

Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

Quentin Tarantino

rocks play writing

I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.

Queen Latifah

relax play fun

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

Quincy Jones

peers play class

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

R. D. Laing

break games play

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

R. Buckminster Fuller

devil degrees play

Quotes with BEER Category

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

J. P. Donleavy

beer funny death

Yo! Cam!” Beer Guy jumped off the porch and jogged down the sidewalk, passing me a quick look. “What you up to, man?” Saved by the frat boy. Cam’s gaze didn’t veer from me, but his grin started to slip. “Nothing, Kevin, just trying to have a conversation.

J. Lynn

beer men boys

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

J. R. Moehringer

beverages meals beer

Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

Jack Herer

marijuana body beer

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

Jack Nicholson

drink beer world

There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.

Jack McDevitt

beer water moving

Quotes with BEES Category

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

bees happy men

Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

J. R. R. Tolkien

bigs should bees

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

Patti Smith

pesticides strong bees

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Penelope Gilliatt

seems bees sometimes

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Philip Pullman

butterfly bees writing

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

Pietro Metastasio

serpent flower bees

Quotes with NIGHT TIME Category

When it draws near to witching time of night.

Robert Blair

draws night-time night

Quotes with APPLE PIE Category

I'm as American as apple pie.

Paul Mooney

apples pie apple-pie

Quotes with MONDAY Category

But as I stood there dressed in a cute black pants suit and white button-up shirt and heels, I felt completely out of place. Not necessarily because of the clothes, but…I just don’t belong there. I can’t put my finger on it, but that Monday and the rest of that week when I woke up, got dressed and walked into that store, something was itching the back part of my consciousness. I couldn’t hear the actual words, but it felt like: This is your life, Camryn Bennett. This is your life.

J.A. Redmerski

white monday cute

All my days are themed. Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design. Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications. Thursday is partnership and developers. Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon. Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.

Jack Dorsey

friday monday morning

I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."

Jack Nicklaus

basketball monday night

My birthday was Monday, now I finally get to go home and enjoy it with some Burger King. Here I come baby! Burger King! Burger King!

James Toney

kings monday baby

I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

Jane Swisshelm

women monday character

If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!

John Wagner

return each-day monday

Quotes with HOT Category

I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

Aaron Dontez Yates

dark hot world

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

Aasif Mandvi

making-love hot children

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

AB de Villiers

fire matter hot

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Bam Margera

hot-chick paint hot

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

ignorance air hot

Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

Caity Lotz

too-much hot people

Quotes with SUN Category

To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.

J. Cole

appreciate sun rain

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

J. D. Salinger

afternoon crazy sun

Back of the clouds, the sun is always shining.

Jack Hyles

shining sun clouds

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

Jack Vance

tomorrow sun might

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Jacob Grimm

sun men looks

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

Jacques Barzun

president sun school

Quotes with EASE Category

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

Jackie Stewart

ease order needs

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Jackson Pollock

two-sides ease art

He [Vishous] was all need, no ease.

J.R. Ward

vishous ease needs

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

Pablo Casals

substitutes labor ease

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

Paolo Bacigalupi

paper law ease

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

Pat Conroy

soul ease book

Quotes with DIARIES Category

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

Edvard Munch

spiritual diaries ordinary

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

Enoch Powell

diaries writing

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Erik Larson

bigs reading diaries

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Erica Jong

boring diaries writing

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

Erin Gruwell

fighting matter diaries

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Eudora Welty

diaries letters memories

Quotes with REASON WHY Category

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

Abbi Glines

reason reason-why forget

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

A.S.A. Harrison

shapes reason-why men

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

Casey Neistat

creative reason reason-why

I can trust you, Jessie, but you're clearly not well enough to go. Which is unfortunate, since Aloysius always had a weakness for a pretty face." "Even more reason why I should go," said Will.

Cassandra Clare

weakness faces reason-why

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Catherine Opie

language complicated reason-why

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

Cesare Pavese

ego reason-why thinking

Quotes with JOURNAL Category

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

J. K. Rowling

week journal two

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

Kenneth Williams

loneliness journal diaries

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Pharrell Williams

keyboards journal

First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.

Reggie Lee

get-up journal firsts

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

Stevie Nicks

locks journal

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

Susan Sontag

keeping-a-journal persons journal

Quotes with WANT Category

Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

J. A. Adande

want writing sports

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

J. A. Jance

stopping want writing

Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

J. B. Bernstein

want giving kids

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

J. Bowyer Bell

chaos trouble want

There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.

J. Boone

dog want facts

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

J. Carter Brown

earth want

Quotes with RELATION Category

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

J. R. D. Tata

rewards essentials relation

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Jacques Lacan

position relation

... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?

Pat Robertson

judgment judging relation

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

Paulo Freire

relation needs

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

Peter Buffett

force relation men

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

Peter Drucker

groups humans relation

Quotes with CAN DO Category

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

Quintus Ennius

asks can-do

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

R. A. Torrey

omnipotent prayer can-do

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

R. C. Sproul

sovereign satan can-do

You can't send a girl in to do what a lady can do.

Rachel

girl can-do

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Rand Paul

can-do-something election can-do

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

Rajneesh

effort can-do firsts

Quotes with DOE Category

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

Queen Rania of Jordan

political doe people

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

Quentin S. Crisp

diversity doe culture

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

lasting reason doe

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Quintilian

evil doe opportunity

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

R. James Woolsey, Jr.

election return doe

One mistake does not define you.

R. J. Palacio

one-mistake doe mistake