FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights of popular celebration cause ancient and forgotten avatars ... (Jean Lorrain)

It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until ... (Laurell K. Hamilton)

It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself ... (Kim Stolz)

From where I stood, the Statue of Liberty was a flourescent green fleck against the sky, and beyond her sat Ellis Island, the focus of so many myths; but it ... (Teju Cole)

Pierce took a step back to put more space between us. "I demanded too much," he said, his sadness at himself, not me. "I see in your heart you found ... (Kim Harrison)

This will happen again," Nathaniel explained. "Even if we manage not to hurt each other, eventually one of us will get sick or get bored, or someone else will get ... (Jay Bell)

A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a ... (Preston Sturges)

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being. ... (Rod Parsley)

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem. ... (Yusef Komunyakaa)

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves. ... (Simon Bolivar)

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. ... (H.G.Wells)

I was in 'Cliffhanger' years ago, so I'm a massive fan of the big event movies - the good ones - but there's a lot of crap that's made in ... (Craig Fairbrass)

People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do ... (Charlize Theron)

BlogHer would not exist ... if we hadn't made a commitment that the only way to work with women in an entirely new record-breaking technological environment was to listen as ... (Lisa Stone)

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we ... (Tom Robbins)

My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly. ... (Roger Lloyd-Pack)

I'd long wondered if I were really a civilized person, though I kept striving to be one. I knew that at the moment I'd said I would take care of ... (Charlaine Harris)

I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel ... (Rachel Caine)

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a ... (David Nicholls)

He wants you and Rayna both to stay away until he announces the ceremony. I told him you had plenty to keep you occupied until then." "What do you mean?" ... (Anna Banks)

The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by ... (Lord Chesterfield)

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused. ... (SARK)

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree. ... (Philip Yancey)

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do ... (Alan Furst)

Did you know that only a tiny minority of viruses cause illness in humans? No one knows how many viruses there are, but their real role, when you get right ... (Ryu Murakami)

The Harrowing of Hell is so important to the Eastern Orthodox Church that they reenact it during their Easter liturgy. The priest exits the church with a cross held high, ... (Richard Beck)

I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. ... (Hugh Laurie)

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power - it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week. ... (Anthony Robbins)

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry. ... (Elon Musk)

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. ... (Ethan Zuckerman)