FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The scaly spindles of a conifer's cone, the helicoidal flow of a river's curve biting away the bank, the flash of orange upon a butterfy's wings warning predators of a ... (Alexandra Oliva)

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food. ... (Betty Smith)

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's ... (Amy Poehler)

The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a ... (Ofra Strauss)

The woman laughed again. She was the loudest person in the cave. Eena wondered if perhaps she was talking to a female Ghengat. Curiosity got the best of her and ... (Richelle E. Goodrich)

The tour bus is always fun, and there's plenty of time to watch movies. Actually, Kanye introduced me to the movie 'Step Brothers.' We were sitting there, watching it and ... (Kid Cudi)

You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But you can fix yourself; you can put yourself back together and ... (J.M. Darhower)

Toward dawn we shared with you your hour of desolation, the huge lingering passion of your unearthly out cry, as you swung your blind head towards us and laboriously opened ... (Stanley Kunitz)

To A Young Beauty Dear fellow-artist, why so free With every sort of company, With every Jack and Jill? Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with ... (W.B.Yeats)

The Taliban's discrimination against women is completely opposed to the practice of the Prophet and the conduct of the first ummah. The Taliban are typically fundamentalist, however, in their highly ... (Karen Armstrong)

I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad ... (Tina Knowles)

The vision is to restore Avon to an iconic beauty brand and to our leadership position in global direct selling, as well as continuing to ensure that we live up ... (Sheri McCoy)

... "Ignatius, was you wearing that cap when you spoke to the insurance man?" "Of course I was. That office was improperly heated. I don't know how the employees of ... (John Kennedy Toole)

That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way they lived: sitting on the floor, eating with their fingers, cooking ... (Paul Bowles)

I don't even do anything super crazy when it comes to eating. The most I would ever do is eat some kind of sushi raw. I keep it real light ... (Deon Cole)

If I could bottle kindness, I wonder if formaldehyde would preserve it. ... (Amanda Mosher)

It is not my place to judge any person's beliefs, but choose rather to celebrate their ability to believe. ... (Tom Althouse)

A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells ... (Ilona Andrews)

Having undergone that disintegration and dying of past individuals and rebirth into something vastly more powerful, all these creatures had joined millions of years before into its own early Gravemind, ... (Greg Bear)

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim. ... (Kara Swisher)

He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - "just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in ... (Jascha Heifetz)

In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite love his accent. ... (Paris Hilton)

Indeed, some cynical liberals have even questioned the sincerity of pro-life advocates as not really being in favor of "life" as an absolute, since they support the death penalty. Other ... (George Lakoff)

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results ... (Edouard Vuillard)

The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than ... (Albert Camus)

Deciding on the right thing to do in a situation is a bit like deciding on the right thing to wear to a party. [ ... ] The truth is ... (Lemony Snicket)

Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true. His aesthetic steeped in the ... (Karen Kain)

Our darling Roberta, No sorrow shall hurt her If we can prevent it Her whole life long. Her birthday's our fete day, We'll make it our great day, And give ... (E. Nesbit)

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. ... (Joan Winmill Brown)

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able ... (Richard Dawkins)

And isn't that the tragedy of love, it's utter and complete deceit, that you can only be true in it, that you only wish to reveal your full truth to ... (Omair Ahmad)

Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter ... (Toni Jordan)

We should not fail to hide our love for the one who fails to hide hatred ... (Munia Khan)

Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths. Kafka's ape, dragged into human society, expresses very ... (W.G. Sebald)

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world. ... (Ed Koch)

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ... (Richard Dawkins)

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow. ... (Ken Robinson)

Take a cup of love Add a dash of care Mix with kindness Add a bit of patience Top it off with faith Sprinkle liberally with understanding Share with everyone ... (Viola Shipman)

[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth ... (William Faulkner)

No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's ... (Ernesto Teodoro Moneta)

Maybe the world isn't full of signs so much as it's full of people trying to use whatever evidence they can find to convince themselves of what they hope to ... (Jennifer E. Smith)

There's a lot of angry people in the world, Jake - lots and lots of angry people. Some are angry down inside where nobody sees. Others you can tell just ... (Michael R. Phillips)

Gathering her courage, she swallowed past the lump in her throat and held his gaze. It wasn't how she'd envisioned telling him, but she couldn't let him go without saying ... (Kaylea Cross)

Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , ... (Cassandra Clare)

I grew up having to care what people think; it was part of my job.I've been built up and torn down, built up and torn down. It's been difficult to ... (LeAnn Rimes)

The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it. ... (Rupert Everett)

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and ... (T. S. Eliot)

Clary raised her eyebrows at Jace. "You hate bergamot?" Jace had wandered over to the narrow bookshelf and was examining its contents. "You have a problem with that?" "You may ... (Cassandra Clare)

Let me see if I understand correctly now," the Jinni said at one point. "You and your relations believe that a ghost living in the sky can grant you wishes." ... (Helene Wecker)

Reclaimed by the small-time day-to-day, pretending life is Back To Normal, wrapping herself shivering against contingency's winter in some threadbare blanket of first-quarter expenses, school committees, cable-bill irregularities, a workday ... (Thomas Pynchon)

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. ... (Susan Faludi)

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because ... (Thich Nhat Hanh)

People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or ... (Rob Zombie)

There's something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It's the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the vulnerability of trusting others to navigate ... (Lavinia Spalding)

Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

I loved you on purpose i was open on purpose i still crave vulnerability & close talk & i'm not even sorry bout you bein sorry you can carry all ... (Ntozake Shange)

Now smiling had been something almost alien to me just a few weeks ago. But over this short period of time, I had rediscovered this art thanks to that noble ... (Vivek Pereira)

As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash ... (Linda Sunshine)

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in ... (Petra Stunt)

The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill's, Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up. ... (Nabil N. Jamal)