Heraclitus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
-
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
-
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
-
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
-
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
-
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
-
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
-
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
-
Our best thoughts come from others.
-
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
-
I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
-
If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
-
Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
-
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
-
Harry Dresden: Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
-
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.
-
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
-
Acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.
-
There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
