F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of the audience. I can only think about what interests me, and maybe what I would want to see if I were watching the movie. To me, that's the key to writing something that's not pandering.”
“From my vantage point, when I'm criticized in a way that I can hear what's being said - i.e., the issues - I'm more likely to listen and respond. A lot of the personal email I receive consists of name calling; I'll write back and say: Talk to me like I'm a person and you're a person and tell me where you disagree with me. I can't tell you how that turns people upside down. More often than not they write back with an apology and a reasoned argument.”
“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”
Source: Ficciones
“From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only a deep blackness in the woods at night. I would sit there wakeful, hour after hour, and wonder if this aching around my heart, this sense of being alone, forlorn and unwanted in a world where there was gayety and love for others of my age, was going to continue for all of my days.”
Source: Up a Road Slowly
“From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.”
“From my youth, I was trained to endure rejections and change them into opportunities.”
Source: Ouch! A memoir with a twist…
“From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has always appeared to me a fact of the highest importance which, for his sake and my own, I must endeavor to understand . . . I am more than ever certain that a great place belongs to him in Israel's history of faith and that this place cannot be described by any of the usual categories.”
“From my youth upwards My Spirit walked not with the souls of men, Nor looked upon the earth with human eyes; The thirst of their ambition was not mine, The aim of their existence was not mine; My joy was in the wilderness—to breathe the difficult air of the iced mountain's top, Where the birds dare not build—nor insect's wing. These were my pastimes, and to be alone; For if the beings, of whom I was one—Hating to be so—crossed me in my path, I felt myself degraded back to them, And was all clay again. And then I dived, In my lone wanderings, to the caves of Death, Searching its cause in its effect; and drew from withered bones, and skulls, and heaped up dust conclusions most forbidden.”
Source: Manfred
“From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!”
“From naive, lonely princess to winner of hearts and minds less than a month, Jasmine managed to make people feel at ease with her while still maintaining her rule as leader.”
Source: A Whole New World
“From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.”
Source: Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed
“From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.”
“From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.”
“From natural cleaner to sunburn soother, apple cider vinegar has many uses for healthy living.”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“From Nature all life springs. To Her we all return. Keep Her in good mood. Do good things for Her in such a manner that She offers only good for us in return. Taking Her patience for granted, we are putting ourselves in trouble.
Beware of Her wrath!
Happy World Environment Day!”
“From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.”
Source: Essay on Man
“From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women and
girls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles and
emotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasingly
hostile to the womenfolk”
“From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.”
“From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.”
Source: J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965
“From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.”
“From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.”
“From no place can you exclude the fates.
[Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]”
“From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.”
“From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.”
Source: Winner Within Success
“From north to south, the island is just ten miles long, but it feels like a continent in its own right. There are bays and inlets, coves and mudflats, a winery, a berry farm, a llama farm, sixteen restaurants, a café that makes homemade cinnamon rolls and the best coffee I've ever tasted, and a market whose wares include locally produced raspberry wine and organic Swiss chard picked just hours before making its appearance in the produce section.”
Source: The Violets of March
“From "Not For Ourselves Alone:"
In Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s time:
Women were barred by custom from the pulpit and professions
Those who spoke in public were thought indecent
Married women were prohibited from owning or inheriting property: in fact, wives were the property of their husbands, who were entitled by law to her wages and her body.
Women were prohibited from signing contracts
Women had no right to their children or even their clothing in a divorce
Women were not allowed to serve on juries and most were considered incompetent to testify.
Women were not allowed to VOTE.”
“From not the gravest of Divines,
Accept for once some serious Lines.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory
“From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations”
Source: Writings
“From nothing I have created another entirely new world.”
“From nothing to abundance, by God, for others.”
“From nothing to everything is a long way, from everything to nothing is one stop.”
“From nothing, unseen and unnamed, she watched and waited. Every shadow whispered her patience, every secret sharpened her resolve. And when the time came, the world learned her name.”
“From nothingness we have become together,
Like a soul and its creator forever.”
“From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.”
“From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.”
“From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.”
“From now on Anne saw herself as someone indelibly marked by suffering. Her letters to Sarah often ended with an allusion to her tragic history of bereavement, for she took to signing them "your poor unfortunate faithful Morley.”
Source: Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
“From now on celebrities and famous people will be judged by one question only. Cult or not cult?”
“From now on he would think for himself and make his own decisions, and his feet and hands and body would be his servants to do his bidding.”
Source: I Am David
“From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.”
Source: Beyond Culture
“From now on, I am dealing with certain people with a long-handled spoon.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”
“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
“From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.”
Source: Syntactic Structures
“From now on, I will no longer leave our fate up to the whims of the universe.”
Source: Romeo & Juliet & Vampires
“From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”
Source: The cost of living
“From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.”
Source: The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood
“From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.”
“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.”
Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow