FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Instead of getting my gold retirement watch and landing on my feet with a white picket fence and a satellite dish, I ended up base-jumping from the kettle into the ... (Shane Kuhn)

A lot of development has always been informally subsidized. When a system administrator writes a network analysis tool to help him do his job, then posts it online and gets ... (Karl Franz Fogel)

Why do we live in this cycle of validation, swept up by the empty promises of the Love Idol, only to sink down when someone rejects us? We make frenetic ... (Jennifer Dukes Lee)

No. I never saw a bad girl. You're not bad, Ash. You've just been pretending to be someone else for so long. Just to make your parents happy and then ... (Abbi Glines)

But, if we let it, technology can also add a lot of noise and distraction that get in the way of our most fundamental creative capabilities - instead of freeing ... (Arianna Huffington)

You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love ... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses you ... (Bruce C. Hafen)

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect ... (James Lecesne)

My goodness, they were like hand grenades of testosterone rolling in the door, sucking all the air out of the room. ... (Jennifer Bernard)

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and ... (Steven Pinker)

Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular ... (Alain de Botton)

A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow's supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn. The ... (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing ... (Tyler Perry)

Jane Austen, who is said to be Shakespearian, never reminds us of Shakespeare, I think, in her full-dress portraits, but she does so in characters such as Miss Bates and ... (A. C. Bradley)

We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do ... (Scott McNealy)

There is no such thing as unconditional love," my mother told me. "I could stop loving you at any time. ... (Elana K. Arnold)

I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. ... (Paul Fleischman)

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world ... (Patrick Stump)

He thought the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we ... (Hermann Hesse)

I might cry later, at home, while watching Steel Magnolias and dressed like a homeless person. Sometimes I applied mascara before crying just to heighten the experience. ... (Penny Reid)

There was scrutiny is Lincoln's eyes as he looked at me. He was studying me. Eyeing me up and down. Taking in my hair, my mouth, my eyes. His gaze ... (Megan Squires)

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. ... (Ann Richards)

It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually he had rarely been alone for long: working ... (Tracy Chevalier)

The world is in an eternal struggle against good and evil," he would say to me. "But the most important war is fought here." Ilyas would tap his chest. "It ... (Kat Ross)

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you. ... (Britney Spears)

You don't have a soul, so you can't be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it's unfair and sometimes I don't believe it. After all, what would heaven ... (Nancy Farmer)

It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, ... (Carl Sagan)

Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that ... (Ian Macfarlane)

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now. ... (Louise Hay)

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our ... (John Updike)

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat ... (Matthew James Thomas)