FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

It is not known that Litvinoff's favorite flower was the peony. That his favorite form of punctuation was the question mark. That he had terrible dreams and could only fall ... (Nicole Krauss)

It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight. ... (Crystal Woods)

I understand what you meant about those closest to you hurting you the most now. I'll be in touch. ... (Jay Crownover)

His in-laws, Erastus and Eloise Oppenheimer, lived in Ezra, Texas, a town tucked so deep in the woods of East Texas that time, civil rights, and wireless Internet couldn't find ... (Sharon Bayliss)

Deferral of gratification may be an effect, not a cause. Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] ... (Alfie Kohn)

On the TV screen right now, it's 1975, and Jimmy Page is playing like a man who answers to nobody. A man existing in that seductive state of extended adolescence ... (Dan Kennedy)

He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on ... (Doris Lessing)

You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors. It's the morning of your very first day. You say hi to your friends you ain't seen in a ... (Taylor Swift)

Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we'll burn in hell together.' 'We're not going to hell, Aelin,' he said. 'But wherever we go, we'll go ... (Sarah J. Maas)

It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear. ... (Shannon L. Alder)

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and ... (Jacques Roumain)

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding. ... (Sebastian Coe)

Marguerite sighed, some of her tension leaving. "Yes, well he appears to have a strong mind." Lissianna nodded. "I noticed. I couldn't get into his thoughts to calm him. Not ... (Lynsay Sands)

I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing. "Helping you," said Dirnes. "Why?" They put the soldier down, and Ochto straightened ... (Megan Whalen Turner)

All the way back she talked haltingly about herself, and Amory's love waned slowly with the moon. At her door they started from habit to kiss good night, but she ... (F Scott Fitzgerald)

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything ... (Aleister Crowley)

It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the ... (Phil Collen)

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself. ... (Elisabeth Elliot)

Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, ... (Ru Freeman)

The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access. ... (Marvin Ammori)

I mean you're cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that she could press herself against your manly body? ... (Malorie Blackman)

The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas comes out." - Republican U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, 20131 ... (Naomi Klein)

I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so ... The more ... (Alice Braga)

Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership. ... (Kenneth H. Blanchard)

I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that aged the best in the way they tell ... (Michel Hazanavicius)

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead ... (Burt Rutan)

It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is ... (George Vecsey)

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days. ... (Debi Mazar)

My manager, who is a very timid person, often tells me that I should think before I speak. I tell her that she should actually have the guts to speak ... (Miley Cyrus)

Ah, but can one person ever really know another? Are we not all mysteries to each other? ... (Dexter Palmer)