FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese, charred black on the surface, with either tinned tuna or lardy mince lurking ... (David Nicholls)

Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with ... (Dan Pearce)

I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese. ... (Ma Ying-jeou)

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which ... (Edward Everett)

I smile bitterly. "Let's not forget who killed her. You destroy all that you touch." "Well," he whispers back, returning my smile. "Then we have much in common. ... (Marie Lu)

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - ... (Jody Williams)

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing. ... (Gwyneth Paltrow)

I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, ... (Elizabeth Gurley Flynn)

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. ... (Thomas Jane)

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, ... (Salman Rushdie)

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power ... (Chaim Potok)

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American ... (Herbert Hoover)

The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not ... (Lawrence Anthony)

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility ... (John Ashcroft)

As a sign of human nature, the pumpkin embodied unbounded lust or lack of civility; as a symbol of a place, it represented the untamed natural bounties of North America; ... (Cindy Ott)

I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of anything I just stopped doing for no reason. ... (Anthony Jeselnik)

Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold ... (Marc Bekoff)

His caressing palm on her butt almost had her lulled into la-la land when he murmured, "You're mom's got a nice ass. "Willow's eyes popped open. "Excuse me?" "What?" he ... (Linda Kage)

One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. ... (Cat Deeley)

I love you without end. Don't you dare think for a second that that love is gone. Don't you dare mourn for me. Miss me. Every day, just as I ... (Kendall Ryan)

...she knew from school that that sort of literature was boring: Gorky was correct but somehow ponderous; Mayakovsky was very correct but somehow awkward; Saltykov-Shchedrin was progressive, but you could ... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed ... (George r r martin)

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is ... (C.S. Lewis)

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. ... (Tim Daly)

It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity. ... (Philip K. Dick)

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and ... (Jacques Roumain)

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly. ... (Etgar Keret)

A woman's long hair symbolizes that she submits to God's plan and to the family leadership of her husband. It is her glory. It is a sign to the angels ... (David K. Bernard)

One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue ... ... (David Hilbert)

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for ... (Al Roker)