FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Their words flitted past, like short sentences typed out on a keyboard, typing away Yosop's past and future. They all said "American troops," but Yosop knew for a fact that ... (Hwang Sok-yong)

Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing a celestial melody while the other is doing ... (Tori Amos)

The best way out of your own troubles is to help somebody else with theirs," Grandpa John said. "Works every time. ... (Andrea Hurst)

I am not a bed-and breakfast person. I understand why other people would want to stay in B&Bs. They're pretty. They're personal. They're "quaint," a polite way of saying "no ... (Sarah Vowell)

Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature. ... (Alfred William Howitt)

For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human history was no more than a pathetically partial ... (Thomas Ligotti)

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth can be found by recognizing what our parents ... (James Redfield)

I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. ... (Dionne Warwick)

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. ... (Ayn Rand)

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to ... (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)

Because sometimes in life, you just have to stand there and do nothing. Overwhelmed by all the versions of ourselves that exist in our minds - who we want to ... (Cora Carmack)

My Mother My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. She had what it's called natural wisdom, bless her precious ... (Euginia Herlihy)

One is what one remembers: no more, no less. ... (Jan Struther)

I could not give her my heart, because it already belonged to another; for I have only loved once. ... (Anne Rouen)

So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown ... (Mary Shelley)

We just kept hanging in and fighting. ... (Troy Brown)

Sweet Pea, the way you eat means you got tits and ass. This is good because I like tits and ass. This is bad because Tack and Lawson like 'em ... (Kristen Ashley)

Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; ... (Paul Goodman)

... each woman is a wonderful world unto herself. And monogamy? It's like choosing to live in a single town and never traveling to experience the beauty, history, and enchantment ... (Neil Strauss)

You have to make your own chances. ... (Duncan Bannatyne)

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ... (Eric Hoffer)

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections. ... (Arundhati Roy)

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good. ... (Theodore Roosevelt)

We're constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren't any better than us. I'm as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid ... (Drew Magary)

There are those who will say that I brought this upon myself. By dabbling in that quiz show. They will wag a finger at me and remind me of what ... (Vikas Swarup)

He winced when he stood lumbago, he explained, from turning one too many sentences arounder that day and said that he still his evening's reading. He did not do justice ... (Philip Roth)

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics. ... (Orrin Woodward)

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources. ... (Eric Schmidt)

Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky. ... (Rumi)