Lends Quotes
131 quotes by 120 authors
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and…
— Nathan Fillion
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And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
— Scott Hamilton
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I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an…
— Michael Haneke
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit…
— Sam Harris
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
— William Hazlitt
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
— Oliver Herford
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences…
— William James
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
— Arthur Miller
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I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high,…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms,…
— Auguste Rodin
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice,…
— Marquis de Sade
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
— Walter Scott
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Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.
— Simon Sinek
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Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are…
— Dylan Thomas
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde
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It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it…
— Tom Wolfe
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I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
— Colm Toibin
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Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
— Mark Twain
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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Lends Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 131 Lends Quotes, led by these top contributors: