FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of ... (Paul Samuelson)

An aphrodisiac will disappear, delusional, like permanence or wealth - a shimmering, as if love were a ghost - and yet my passion for you seethes and sears without an ... (Lauren Lipton)

Suicide attempts at the Empire State Building are rare, but the same unfortunately cannot be said about the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the most popular such site in ... (Dan Lewis)

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels. ... (Candace Bushnell)

(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to ... (Cesar Chavez)

I didn't know his age or how he liked his tea, I was wearing a terrible coat and I was drunk as a stoat - but this moment felt like ... (Lucy Robinson)

In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing ... (Bill Vaughan)

My body felt heavy. It grew harder to thrash around, to move at all. I opened my mouth to scream again but no sound came from my blood-soaked lips. My ... (Allison Sipe)

On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across multiple titles. ... (Joe Madureira)

Funny thing about guilt: There's nothing so bad that you can't add a little guilt to it and make it worse; and there's nothing so good you can't add guilt ... (C. Jay Cox)

Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort. ... (Eric Thomas)

Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.' 'No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.' 'But you're friend's here now,' she ... (Dan Wells)

The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: ... (Revilo P. Oliver)

I want to love Ryan the way I love Thumper. I want to love him and protect him and believe in him and be ready to jump in front of ... (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order - these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle. ... (Howard Bloom)

You'll learn. It takes time to kill the flesh, honey. It's kind of like those candles your father used to put on Mitchell's cake the ones that relight when you ... (Heather Randall)

We don't sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We're amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both. Edward ... (Lindsay Clarke)

Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, ... (Helen Fielding)

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. ... (W. Somerset Maugham)

I'm probably the only sixteen-year-old girl in a three hundred mile radius who knows how to distinguish between a poltergeist from an actual ghost (hint: If you can disrupt it ... (Lilith Saintcrow)

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze. ... (Shannon Celebi)

Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time. ... (Susan Mallery)

...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent anti-speech street protests,and hysteria currently ... (Mollie Hemingway)

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life! ... (Ray Kroc)

Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to ... (David Mitchell)

Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after' With all the joys of friendship, Love, fun and laughter ... (John Walter Bratton)

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. ... (Dean Koontz)

Like Keats he may wander through the old-world forests of Latmos, or stand like Morris on the galley's deck with the Viking when king and galley have long since passed ... (Oscar Wilde)

What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up ... (Dan Pearce)

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging. ... (Naomi Campbell)