Quotes 741 till 760 of 3763.
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Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
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Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.
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Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
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Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
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Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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