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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It was a bolt from the blue.
TED DUMITRU An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
MINNA ANTRIM No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alia...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William Jame...
WILLIAM JAMES It felt like a bolt of lightning. White, blue and black all flashed before my eyes. I wanted to craw...
DEAN SCHMUNK I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path w...
CLAY AIKEN The man you see here now, a priest, there's no way I would have ever imagined being Catholic or a pr...
DONALD CALLOWAY Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.
THOMAS CARLYLE The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniatur...
MARTIN REES This is something new, at least from the recent past. There will be some pushing and shoving to see ...
CHARLES BULLOCK There's no damage to the ride itself ? it was just to the cue house that the ride was attached to.
DONNA MARIE JENDRITZA I dont know if anybody knows how to recover from this,
BOB ISRAEL I think it's pretty much a no-brainer. James Webb is an extraordinary, unique candidate that comes a...
LOWELL FELD no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ...
DALLY SALAD No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT This is the flagship. It gets the national introduction.
STEVE TORRES Natural gas is taking its cue from crude and is being dragged along for the ride.
KYLE COOPER No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a ma...
C. S. LEWIS This recipe came to me like a lightning bolt out of the blue. I think it is a great way to enjoy wel...
ANNA GINSBERG Neither Doyle nor Christie ever wrote a book that compares with the novels of P.D. James. Doyle and ...
ANITA SHREVE I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
FREDRICH A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fa...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or say...
PINK No child understands how well she knows her parents' faces, how much they tell her without speaking;...
CATHERINE LACEY I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hai...
AIMEE MULLINS And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with ...
NIA VARDALOS Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount ...
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting
WILLIAM COWPER An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
WILLIAM COWPER Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I take my cue from deeds, not words.
AESCHYLUS There is, I find, something very evocative about ruins - particularly recent ones. (introduction to ...
JOEL KNIGHT Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the...
EDWARD TOPSELL Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS It was strange not having him there. What's happened was a bolt out of the blue but I think he's goi...
JOE COLE My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
BETTY FRIEDAN No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
, SEX AND THE CITY, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, 2000 Father William being here every day provides a continuity of care. He can meet with a family on Mond...
MEG JORDAN He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
QUINTUS ENNIUS He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
QUINTUS ENNIUS Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond...
IDRIS ELBA An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
OSCAR LEVANT I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educat...
ELLIOT COWAN If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all a...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Dont EVER EVER EVER let ANYONE tell you to delete pictures you've taken with your camera. Profession...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. �...
GEORGE SHEEHAN As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being...
CATE BLANCHETT Anywhere you have an active level of climbing, you're going to see fixed anchors. There are differen...
JAY WATSON Anywhere you have an active level of climbing, you're going to see fixed anchors, ... There are diff...
JAY WATSON When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
IRWIN WINKLER Tony Dungy is as classy a human being as you will ever know. This is a tough one. I don't know how a...
DOC RIVERS Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With n...
MARGARET MEAD Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up
NADIRA AHMED Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you ...
DONNA MACMEANS Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
CORMAC MCCARTHY You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
KARL KRAUS Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram
KARL KRAUS I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made rig...
DOUGRAY SCOTT All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
DELMORE SCHWARTZ It goes without saying that to make so much out of so little is a tour de force, ... It's what every...
DAVID LANG Me being me, how did i ever end up with friends like thee?
PRABHUDOSS SAMUEL No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short
STEPHEN KEAGUE I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.
SIMONE BILES I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alch...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL Tahiti's absolutely gorgeous. My favorite part of it is how blue the water gets. There's, like, 50 d...
FERNANDA MOTTA I see hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches with their bindles on their back an�...
JOHN STEINBECK People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo...
TANICA S HALL The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between hi...
FRANCES PERKINS old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
JAMES BROWN Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian sy...
JOHN CLAYTON To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religio...
RUDOLF OTTO I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to ...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGE No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of t...
W. EMERSON WRIGHT Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever ...
SUSANNA KAYSEN I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company g...
GARRETT CAMP No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
RONALD REAGAN With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and mad...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Words are better on the outside. The more you keep in, the harder it gets to ever being free from st...
MIKE GRIST How he (Elian) would feel suddenly being put in the arms of a stranger; what would he think, how fri...
JANET RENO His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.
MARY TYLER MOORE The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
DON MARQUIS The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
DON MARQUIS What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
UNKNOWN What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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WILLIAM JAMES No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
WILLIAM JAMES