FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the ... (Marie Winn)

No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile - not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents, or siblings. No one leaves his ... (Paulo Freire)

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses ... (Tom Robbins)

There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may become desolate, and street, battle ground, ... (M T Anderson)

He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female. ... (Margaret Atwood)

I am sure everyone reading this book values their sleep, but I am a sleep enthusiast! My dream is to become one of those grandpas in Charlie and the Chocolate ... (Jim Gaffigan)

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof ... (Herman Melville)

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. ... (Samuel Johnson)

For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to ... (Kate Klise)

I thought you didn't believe in marriage." "A man who never contradicts himself must become horribly bored with his own conversation. Oh, on the whole I don't believe in it, ... (Jude Morgan)

Lying on the metal table in front of me was a middle-aged man decked out in absolutely nothing at all. A dead man. Buck-ass naked with his little shriveled junk ... (Diana Rowland)

For some reason, Bella doesn't want to scream. I guess she doesn't want Edward and the others to know how much pain she's in. But don't for a minute think ... (Dan Bergstein)

It's okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying, like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it's vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish. ... (Lynda Cheldelin Fell)

The question is not how to get managers' emotional commitment but why manager's don't give it even if they like their company. ... (Stan Slap)

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true. ... (Amit Abraham)

Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, ... (Rudyard Kipling)

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. ... (Anne Lamott)

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me? ... (Noorilhuda)

The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the ... (Ariel Pink)

On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts to build societies ... (Ban Ki-moon)

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have ... (Jean-Pierre Raffarin)

His blue eyes brightened with a smile. 'I did.' He looked over his shoulder, as if making sure her mom wasn't looking. The he pulled her against him and kissed ... (C.C. Hunter)

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels ... (Patrick deWitt)

Never, ever try to impress somebody. Be exactly the person you would be if you were alone or with somebody it was safe to fart around. Be that person. Be ... (Augusten Burroughs)

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. ... (Albert Einstein)

In life, everything awaits in the shadows for the suitable time to come out! All wait silently in the nooks! Observe the shadows and the nooks to guess what will ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. ... (Tom Sizemore)

You should not doubt that you can accomplish something bigger ... (Sunday Adelaja)

I believe it is time for me to begin a new chapter in my life by spending more time with my family and exploring new opportunities here at home in ... (Mike Ross)

You know you're in a college town when there's a restaurant called "Pancakea." The establishment was a pancake/coffee house, and Choo, Molly, Sig, and I were sitting in a booth ... (Elliott James)