Lists Quotes - Page 4

I have my own personal wish list.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you're trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino's...

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.