Lies

Famous quotes containing the word lies:

    [If] Playboy’s Hugh Hefner has done nothing else for American culture, he has given it two of the great lies of the twentieth century: “I buy it for the fiction” and “I buy it for the interview.”
    Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

    Belonging to oneself—the whole essence of life lies in that.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    When we consider the vast distance of the known and visible parts of the world, and the reasons we have to think, that what lies within our ken is but a small part of the universe, we shall then discover an huge abyss of ignorance.
    John Locke (1632–1704)