FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Negative habits eat you up. They're the biggest roadblocks that prevent you from realising your fullest potential; and the very first step towards crafting real change is to become aware ... (Manprit Kaur)

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and ... (F Scott Fitzgerald)

Russians are easy to spot, even if you dress them like Buckingham Palace guards. They are "the white people who look seriously ticked off," as Army Ranger vet Ellis Jones, ... (Pavel Tsatsouline)

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything. ... (M.I.A.)

He broke his heart into a million pieces before it could gather itself back and fall in love with her yet again. Such was her charisma. ... (Abhishek Krishnan)

Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations ... (David Bellos)

Lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. ... (Charles Dickens)

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing. ... (Kanye West)

Ah, the Hand of Glory!" said Mr. Borgin, abandoning Mr. Malfoy's list and scurrying over to Draco. "Insert a candle and it gives light only to the holder! Best friend ... (J.K. Rowling)

Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy to some, heartbreak to others, ... (Ellen Hopkins)

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect ... (Eric Kandel)

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner ... (Michelle Moran)

In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The ... (Lemony Snicket)

She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light Below Orion, and those double stars Whereof the one more bright Is circled by the other ... (Alfred Tennyson)

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of ... (Learned Hand)

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed. ... (Jean-Philippe Toussaint)

Simon: You're in a dangerous line of work, Jayne. Odds are you'll be under my knife again, often. So I want you to understand one thing very clearly: No matter ... (Ben Edlund)

Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia, which states: "A body at ... (Dave Barry)

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest ... (Tyler Cowen)

Well, I suppose we must be going on again,' he said. 'I wonder how long it will be before we really are caught and all the toiling and the slinking ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself! ... (Oliver Reed)

The Strip was still lit by a million neon lights, though the crowds on the sidewalk had greatly decreased by this hour. Still, Bosch was awed by the spectacle of ... (Michael Connelly)

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. ... (Roger Waters)

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful ... (Franz Alexander)

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. ... (Kurt Cobain)

V frowned. There was only a hissing sound coming from the voice mail. But then a clatter had him yanking the phone away from his ear. Now Butch's voice, hard, ... (J.R. Ward)

Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first ... (Maria V. Snyder)

Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed ... (Herman Melville)

The journey itself was the architect of the wood. The interior would never be fully dark because the struggle had cracked it, providing an avenue for the light. ... (Lisa Wingate)

I held my head back and looked upward. The moon was hidden and only a lone star dared to break through the darkness. ... (Nancy B. Brewer)