FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could ... (Bryan Adams)

But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she's not beautiful. There's a certain set to the jaw and arch to the ... (Terry Pratchett)

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25 ... (Yann Martel)

Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere. ... (Max Lucado)

Have you ever felt your destiny unfolding, beloved? Have you experienced the intensity of the hunt, the fixation of attention that only fate can explain? Have you ever told yourself ... (Martha N. Beck)

There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every ... (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was ... (Murray Rothbard)

All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me, since the day I was born. ... (Holly Hood)

Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left ... (Kevin Crossley-Holland)

My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the reality is that I enjoy spending each second with him. He ... (Joyce Giraud)

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to". ... (Mitch Hedberg)

Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River, in east-central Colombia, with forty-two locals ... (Dave Eggers)

- I miss you, Daddy. I know you do. I miss you, too, sweetheart, more than you'll ever know. I don't think I've ever been happier than I was with ... (Justin Cronin)

A horse is a thing of beauty ... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. ... (Xenophon)

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to ... (Nick Harkaway)

Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide. ... (John Newton)

I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. ... (Joseph Altuzarra)

I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all ... (Bear Bryant)

Health and happiness give rise to each other. ... (Joseph Addison)

Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin, wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work in Hufflepuff. ... (Eliezer Yudkowsky)

Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ... (Susan Estrich)

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I ... (Mahmoud Darwish)

Who was the greatest business man ever ... The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? ... It was Jesus ... Jesus was the founder of modern business ... he picked up twelve ... (Paul Harding)

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes. ... (Tom Odell)

The history of the Christian movement is nothing if not the history of Christians struggling to be faithful to God's Spirit as that Spirit is made manifest in new and ... (Stephen B. Bevans)

Leaving him and going out into the paint-fuming air I had the feeling that I had been talking beyond myself, had used words and expressed attitudes not my own, that ... (Ralph Ellison)

I don't know how this hopeless boy weaseled his way into my life this week, but I know i'm definitely not ready for him to leave. ... (Colleen Hoover)

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November ... (Rick Perlstein)

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth ... (Patti Smith)

Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I will acknowledge that such a ... (Greg Rucka)