All Quotes

Of course you're nervous going into a final.
‐‐ Li Na

Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset

Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
‐‐ Sally Hawkins

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
‐‐ John Hickenlooper

Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.
‐‐ Felicity Jones

Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.
‐‐ John Mott

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene, but I've heard a great deal about how 'Your Republic Is Calling You' reminded English readers of those two writers. I don't really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels.
‐‐ Kim Young-ha

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.
‐‐ Robert Blair

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.
‐‐ Oliver Joseph Lodge

'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.
‐‐ Jay Parini

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.
‐‐ Ethel Merman

Of my friends I am the only one left.
‐‐ Terence

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
‐‐ Sara Teasdale

Of my three daughters and one daughter-in-law, they all work. They all work, some of them full-time, some of them part-time. But they're still there as moms. And when they come home and take over that responsibility, they need a shared partner, and that partner is that partner for life. And I'm talking about, of course, the father.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
‐‐ Shirley Chisholm

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
‐‐ Phyllis McGinley

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
‐‐ Rachel Johnson

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Of our seven children, five are at ABC Supply. The three older daughters went to college. The boys went into construction, and I wasn't disappointed they didn't go to college.
‐‐ Diane Hendricks

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
‐‐ Mary MacLane

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
‐‐ John Sergeant Wise

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
‐‐ Aeschylus

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
‐‐ Ed O'Brien

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
‐‐ Ben Hecht

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
‐‐ Stephen R. Donaldson

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.
‐‐ George Smathers