Lists Quotes

1031 Lists quotes by 878 unique authors

There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in… — Caroline Knapp
I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would… — Mark Millar
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put… — Douglas Coupland
Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same… — Kris Radish
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a… — A. J. Jacobs
A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of… — P.G. Wodehouse
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag
I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies. — Daniel Handler
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And… — George Carlin
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from… — Douglas Coupland
I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy. — Jonathan Carroll
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend… — Douglas Coupland
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of… — Ginn Hale
The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know… — Nick Hornby
I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between… — Douglas Coupland
I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like… — Jenny Downham
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,… — Mark Twain
Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a… — Jeanette Winterson
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed… — Barbara Ehrenreich
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace… — Cormac McCarthy
Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists,… — Patrick Rothfuss
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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