Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State… — Jay Bennett Copy Share Image
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity. — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
