Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Young

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Augusten Burroughs

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

C. S. Lewis

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Joseph Stalin

When you chop wood, splinters fly

Peter De Vries

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

Russian Proverb

There is no proverb without a grain of truth

William Shakespeare

May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!

Buddha

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Ken Cox

The grain does move on you. It is like quicksand,

Teresa Follmer

Try and go with the grain of the wood if we can.

Gregg Laskoski

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

Chanakya

He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy

Phil Funkenbusch

There is a grain of truth to every character, but it's overboard, which I really love.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.