FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been ... (Luther Burbank)

I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time. ... (Eliza Doolittle)

I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot! ... (Bobby Fischer)

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it ... (Herman Cain)

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but ... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians. ... (Martha Wainwright)

To those Romans December twenty-fifth was the birthday of the sun. They wrote that in gold letters in their calendar. Every year about that time, the middle of winter, the ... (John G. Jackson)

Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese ... (Buzz Aldrin)

It is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind ... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and ... (Alice Foote MacDougall)

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. ... (Kiera Cass)

North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is ... (Arturo Ripstein)

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what ... (C.S. Lewis)

He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then ... (Jane Goodall)

So Bodee is a friend, I say firmly, a best friend. My honesty with the girl surprises me. But Bodee is right where I love him, in the room down ... (Courtney C. Stevens)

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion ... (Peter Riegert)

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I ... (Larry the Cable Guy)

I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. ... (David Eddings)

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp, The wounded from the battle-plain, ... (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Huguenot party, as the French Protestants were called. The majority of the Parisian populace loathed and feared the Huguenots. Huguenots attacked Catholic churches, destroying precious relics and statues that they ... (Nancy Goldstone)

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief. ... (George Allen)

There is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed ... (James Burgh)

The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many ... (Robert Barron)

Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off! ... (Anna Sui)

I will say that Vertigo is an area of great interest to me. It is even less well tapped than other parts of DC, and could potentially offer amazing stories ... (Diane Nelson)

If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be very wonderful that their labours, ... (Samuel Johnson)

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants. ... (Amory Lovins)

The simplest things in life are what makes us happy eventually. A warm and comfy home, being loved, and knowing that somebody can't live without you ... (Ika Natassa)

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I. ... (Cary Grant)

I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism ... The greatest crimes in history have ... (Saul Alinsky)

Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating ... (Lewis H. Lapham)

When I see someone not performing, I am frank enough to tell the person that it's not working out. I request him or her to leave or change jobs within ... (Subhash Chandra)