Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About de

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Public Opinion Judging Attitude
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Conquers Destruction Ecstasy Frenzy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Truth Dying Wisdom Art
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Passion Borders Chaos Chaotic
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Character Destructive Feeling Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Woman absent is woman dead.

Absent Dead Woman
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Greatest Human Idea Nature
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Compared Consider Done He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Better Dangerous Forget Idea
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
Appealing Having Idea Job
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Comedy Deeply Doing Find
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Cathartic Comedy Deal Personal
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

Driven High High School Loved
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

Born Cycling Everything Hurt
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Anything Basically Birth Childbirth
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

About Becomes Chris Dead
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

Amazing Around Believe Even
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

Awe Because Benefit Done
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Big Doing Filter Form
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Could Guys Hear Laughing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

Brown Dentist Going He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

Best Birthday Ever Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Acting Actor Acts Deals
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Any Believe Curiosity Delight
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Wonderful World Is Mud
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Deliberation How Idle Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Any Battle Being Best
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Alive Being Dead Isn't
  Favorite Make wallpaper
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
Always Any Creation Destroy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Anybody He Little Made
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nothing recedes like progress.

Like Nothing Progress Recedes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

Bartender Beat God He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Before Dared Darkness Deep
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Divided Like Teeth Writers
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Absolute Danger Effect Except
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Found May Possibly Verse
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Bent Come Content Dreams
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Deserves Excitement Excites Need
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Dreary Midnight Once Weak
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Design Difficult Easy Many
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Beauty Brief Creation Define
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Everything Genius Saying Should
  Favorite Make wallpaper