FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier ... (Ann Widdecombe)

That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in ... (Reba McEntire)

Never let go of your appetite to go after new ideas, new experiences, and new adventures. Compete with yourself, not with others. Judge yourself on what is your personal best ... (Sophia Amoruso)

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and ... (Alain de Botton)

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat. ... (Georgi Plekhanov)

Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius bellowed over the crowd in front ... (John Kennedy Toole)

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. ... (Katharine Hepburn)

Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen. ... (Adam Rex)

The problem may be a literary one: we are given a single story line about what makes a good life, even though not a few who follow that story line ... (Rebecca Solnit)

Why do people kill others just like them with such ferocity simply because they worship a different god? What harm were they doing? People suffer in these wars and dozens, ... (Vadim Zeland)

More often than not, at the end of the day (or a month, or a year), you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try something ... (Edward Frenkel)

Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose. ... (R.C. Sproul)

There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the ... (Michael Pollan)

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring ... (Sarah Dessen)

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out comedies, such as the 'Shopaholic' series. ... (Sophie Kinsella)

I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a ... (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. ... (Elia Kazan)

The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the ... (Nikki Rowe)

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth. ... (W. Bruce Cameron)

Well, typically the state of hypnosis is perfected at the right combination of light and sound frequency when the mind completely relaxes. At this state, the mind also becomes highly ... (Rajib Mukherjee)

Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the ... (Albert Camus)

Now that we have discussed the weather and exchanged compliments, how about showing me your loot? ... (Janet Lambert)

What a well-designed forecasting system can do is sort out which statistics are relatively more susceptible to luck; batting average, for instance, is more erratic than home runs. ... (Nate Silver)

Her Shadowblade Prime was fully roused now, power rolling away from her in uncontrollable waves. Her Blades wouldn't be able to ignore it. She had to get to the vault ... (Diana Pharaoh Francis)

Augustus came from a miraculous conception by the divine and human conjunction of Apollo and Atia. How does the historian respond to that story? Are there any who take it ... (John Dominic Crossan)

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys. ... (Robin Williams)

You try to do as much as you can on set because practical looks cool and practical looks great. Until you get to a point where the reality is you ... (Kimberly Peirce)

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. ... (Pedro Pascal)

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would ... (Big Sean)

So ... these Pillars of Hercules. Are they dangerous?" Annabeth stayed focused on the cliffs. "For Greeks, the pillars marked the end of the known world. The Romans said the ... (Rick Riordan)