Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Lehane

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Blaise Pascal

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Blaise Pascal

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Blaise Pascal

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Blaise Pascal

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Blaise Pascal

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

David Robertson

There is always a harmonious solution... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

David Remnick

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

David Icke

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

David Hockney

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

David Hume

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

David Hume

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

David Duchovny

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

David Burtka

The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.

David Burnett

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

Ben Whishaw

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Beatrix Potter

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

Barry Bonds

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

Audre Lorde

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories

Dee Wallace

A really good horror film has a story.

Dick Cavett

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Aimee Mann

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.