“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.” IfsShouldFirstsHas BeensEndsStoriesUsedLyingMy OwnWrittenSubjectsWallGunConcernedCrossesChaptersHanging On Author:Anton Chekhov
“I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told.” ThinkingNeedsMindHas BeensFactsLyingMy OwnIraqConvincedArguing Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.” ShouldMadeStillsI CanFeelingsLyingMy OwnWhitePaintingSceneHorseGratefulPaintPainterInstanceTouchedStrongestAssociatesPencilsCarelessI Am GratefulBoyhoodWhite Horse Author:John Constable
“I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.” ThinkingLyingMy OwnDifficultyTravelerTimidityEminence Book:The Correspondence of Washington Allston Source: The Correspondence of Washington Allston
“I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.” IfsChildrenHelpingBodyLyingMy OwnMurderBelieverFirmLiarsThievesCheatCrooksNever LieLie To Me Author:Leona Helmsley
“If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.” IfsTryingStillsHandsPainLyingFeltMy OwnPulseGarmentsMy Own Life Book:Duende: Poems Source: Duende: Poems
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.” IfsImportantReasonLyingDiesReadingMy OwnWrittenEmotionalMental HealthGenre Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'” IfsWould BeLyingPresidentChanceMy OwnBloodStandingHearingDamnPoolDamn Things Author:Dick Armey
“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.” ThinkingIdeasSometimesStoriesLyingNightFallReadingMy OwnTroubleBedFalling Asleep Author:Linda Sue Park
“I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.” WorldWantEyeEarthLyingJusticeMy OwnSpaceBuiltInfiniteVictimEmbraceLongingBelieverLionsMurdererTime And SpaceLambsInfinite Time Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.” GivingHeartPersonsI CanSoulSpiritLyingEnergyForceMy OwnEnvironmentCuttingAirCommunicationEnvyToxicBrutalOur EnvironmentMy Own LifeDisgustedVibesBad Vibes Author:Bindu
“As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.” ThinkingWorldMayLyingLostMy OwnTeacherOfficeCapableSickTeenagerBeing The BestNurseHeadphonesMy Own WorldBest Day Ever Author:Wesley Eisold
“I'm not a big fan of training, at all. I really don't like it. I've done a few acting classes and I've just hated them. I think they train you to do something, and sometimes you might not be able to break out of it. Acting is lying, and lying is acting. So, I just prefer to read the script and do it my own way.” ThinkingWaySometimesDoneBigsMightAbleLyingMy OwnActingClassBreakFansTrainingTrainScriptsHatedBreak OutActing Classes Author:Callan McAuliffe
“I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.” WayWellsI CanDifferentSelfLightAbleLyingProcessMy OwnTaughtColorComfortShapesSatisfactionReasoningZoneComfort ZoneRefinedSelf Taught Author:John Mayer
“If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenI CanEnoughFactsUseHappensLyingMy OwnPureNotionGuitarCaringSillyFulfillmentGenerousAbandonSelflessChild Of GodUsing MeCaring Enough Author:John McLaughlin
“I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.” WorldSaidProblemAgeSchoolLyingMy OwnDramaSolutionsAngelCombinationDesperationManipulateCordsFridgesUmbilical Cord Author:Tom Hardy