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Celine Dion
I guess it all depends
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
115
George Lois
Creativity can solve almost any
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
30
Celine Dion
For me, singing was real
For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.
92
Jack Handey
If I come back as
If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EASY
56
Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
133
Charles de Leusse
Who destroys is destroyed. Who
Who destroys is destroyed. Who builds is built. (Qui détruit se détruit. Qui construit se construit.)
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Salman Rushdie
One of the extraordinary things
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
85
Gene Wolfe
Knowledge is soon changed, then
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
27
Liberace
Nobody will believe in you
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
68
Salman Rushdie
Literature is where I go
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
80
Jack Handey
If your kid makes one
If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.
102
Salman Rushdie
Books choose their authors; the
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
86
Salman Rushdie
The acceptance that all that
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
81
Steven Pinker
Ancestor worship must be an
Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors.
20
Rev. Patrick Coomer
may I say prayers for
may I say prayers for the dead?
27
Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sphere of thought,
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
115
William Margold
You are a hedgehog, my
You are a hedgehog, my friend. A walking, talking hedgehog.
104
Salman Rushdie
Where there is no belief,
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
86
William Jennings Bryan
If that vital spark that
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
40
Marvin E. Wolfgang
It is the contention of
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.
22
William Jennings Bryan
The humblest citizen of all
The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
57
Salman Rushdie
The real risks for any
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
87
William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
41
Senator Patrick Leahy
You get fifteen democrats in
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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