Favourite Quotes - Page 17

• Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

  Charles A. Dana

  Truth, Believe, Fighting

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• He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

  James Thurber

  Art, Likes, Knows

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 1939 See Gelett Burgess 6

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• I write in a bunch of different ways, but my favourite way is to walk around my neighbourhood at ridiculous hours, like 2am. I feel like the movement helps me clear my thoughts so I can just get all of the words out and type them onto my phone.

  Thomston

  Writing, Phones, Different

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• When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.

  Sonu Nigam

  Song, People, Hardship

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• You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

  Sam Harris

  Real, People, Mind

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• Love is like grass. If you fall on it, it may leave a stain and some temporary pain. But you'll get over the pain, it will eventually stop hurting. Now maybe the stain ruined your favourite pair of jeans, or maybe it was nothing special that was ruined, but either way the stain remains there. And with time, it will begin to fade, but it will always be there, a permanent reminder that you, too, once fell.

  John Mayer

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

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• Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

  Chris Lowe

  Records

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• St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

  John Dyer

  Home, Feet, People

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• In fact my favourite thing is the wig because I'm a very lazy actor so every time I put it on, in order to keep it straight, they kept on telling me to tip my head back because otherwise I was eating it all the time.

  Jason Isaacs

  Order, Lazy, Facts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and have published my ninth book "L'envers à l'endroit" last year. I am currently working on a dictionary of my favourite words.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Stilorama Magazine Interviews Sonia Rykiel". www.stilorama.com. July 4, 2011.

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• My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.

  Jon Richardson

  Sight, Games, Tables

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.

  Douglas Adams

  Sea, Two, Sun

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time".

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Atheist, Believe, Cynical

  Understanding Philosophy ch. 3 (1973)

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• No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Childhood, Pleasure

  Marcel Proust (1948). “Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings”

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• Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Thinking, Degrees

  "Cameron Crowe for “Elizabethtown”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Clothes, Littles

  Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Heart, Years, Broken

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• People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Good People

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• As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Kids, Night

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• If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Notebook, Writing, Cat

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.51, A&C Black

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• When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Slaughterhouse Five

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Believe, Glaciers

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.144, Infobase Publishing

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• Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Confused

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