FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert ... (Pete Hamill)

He created waterfalls for her out of the morning dew, and from the colored pebbles of a meadow stream he made a necklace more beautiful than emeralds, sadder than pearls. ... (Robert Sheckley)

Christianity is not a set of teachings to understand. It is a Person to follow. As he walked with Jesus, Andrew watched Jesus heal the sick, teach God's wisdom, and ... (Henry T. Blackaby)

Six months It been six months since you passed How long must these feelings of loss last ? It's been six months since you died, on the surface it appears ... (Michael Tianias)

I often look to men to model behavior," she goes on after a pause. "Not because I want to squelch what's feminine about me, but because sometimes I want a ... (Amy Poehler)

Don't tell me I'm sentimental, you sons of bitches. You are contemptible, your dishonesty is contemptible, your careful plodding with words, to keep them safely captured inside your silly little ... (William, Saroyan)

No matter how much time you spend climbing up, you may still fall in an instant. ... (Max Payne)

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational ... (George Dantzig)

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species ... (Chris Abani)

In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to not get pregnant. But they don't really talk ... (Ashton Kutcher)

Oh my Jesus," she breathed. "Evangeline, what do you do with all these wonderful young men?" Evangeline choked and Drake squeezed her hand beneath the table, his features working up ... (Maya Banks)

She once told me of a night that fumed with escapes and was filled with bedsides reeking of ecstasy; she told me the stars cast not judgments, but blessings, knowing ... (Dave Matthes)

How do you know you love someone?" he'd asked his dad when he was kid. "Huh. That's a tricky one. I suppose you know you love someone when you want ... (Lisa Henry)

A small town called Phoenixville in Pennsylvania is invaded by aliens. Or maybe alien singular, it's hard to tell. Because this hostile visitor is an amorphous mass of goo that ... (Garry Mulholland)

Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in. ... (Arjen Robben)

My father then presented Honour with a cheque, "This is from our family for you, only you. Put it in a bank and if my son ever treats you badly, ... (Ruth Ahmed)

Yet most women I know - no matter how clever, no matter how strong - are dragged down by husbands or fathers or titles or too many petticoats, or priests ... (Kelly Gardiner)

I vow to serve, to pay my dues And train myself for Legal use. I vow to bear the Surplus shame And repay Nature for the same I vow to ... (Gemma Malley)

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ... (Hannah Arendt)

Your abuser tried to map your life for you. But he does not own you, and you have the freedom and the power to overcome and transcend the (negative) associations. ... (Patti Feuereisen)

When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect. ... (Reed Farrel Coleman)

I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top drawer of my bedside table. When I went ... (Lee Siegel)

The world outside of me has no meaning independent of my thinking it. (pauses to look) I look out of the window. A garden. Trees. Grass. A young woman in ... (Tom Stoppard)

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. ... (Pierre Salinger)

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I ... (Henry Ian Cusick)

People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever. ... (James Patterson)

My baby. My baby. She loved to call him Willy, but others could also call him Willy. Only she could say, My baby. But as much as he was her ... (Tom Franklin)

On a certain afternoon of July, at the tawniest hour, on Galvez Island, the earth -- the tilting spinning earth -- was unearthly. There is no accounting for this adequacy, ... (Benjamin Taylor)

Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to ... (Michael Meade)

You can't change the opinions of small-minded people. ... (Denise Grover Swank)