FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against ... (Alicia Keys)

If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, "What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!" As ... (Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche)

For three years, all through junior high, my social death was grossly overdetermined. I had a large vocabulary, a giddily squeaking voice, horn-rimmed glasses, poor arm strength, too-obvious approval from ... (Jonathan Franzen)

I have a theory that life is gathering the raw materials, and when we die, we get to make patterns out of our lives and relive them in whatever order ... (Robyn Schneider)

The ignorant mass looks upon the man who makes a violent protest against our social and economic iniquities as upon a wild beast, a cruel, heartless monster, whose joy it ... (Emma Goldman)

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, ... (Jim Jarmusch)

It's a very special thing when you go and get to work with your best friend every day. ... (Nick Frost)

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years. ... (Phyllis Schlafly)

Don't go to the circus. ... (Angie Sage)

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

Tony Campolo and I both speak a lot, and we began to notice that there were some crowds of old folks that desperately needed some youthful energy, and there were ... (Shane Claiborne)

Jesus, I'm sorry. I have wasted your time with a fake deal. I acknowledge that this means you are of the case, and that I am now totally on my ... (Caitlin Moran)

I told you. You own me. I'm yours. All that I have been. All that I am. All that I will ever be. Your happiness is mine. Your fury is ... (Gena Showalter)

What he didn't do was control me, or try to mold me into a little wife, some old-fashioned, muted version of who I was. I saw many men do that ... (Jane Green)

So ... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people. ... (R.L. LaFevers)

I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they ... (Edith Head)

If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the ... (Christian Camargo)

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the ... (Swami Dhyan Giten)

Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue. "The mountains are mighty patient, Buddha-man," I said out loud, and took a drink. ... (Jack Kerouac)

If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there is very little there that you ... (Edward Said)

You may say we made a mistake placing the birth of Jesus on December 25th. Consider this: in 3 B.C., December 25th was the eighth day of Hanukkah, the day ... (Anonymous)

In a way it was a modern story but it played to all those 1980 slasher movies. We did the same thing with this. Patrick wanted to do a 1970's ... (Todd Farmer)

If this were fiction, as I said, it would be too much, but it is true. ... (Alice Munro)

A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it ... (Geraldine Ferraro)

I think of the area of magic as a metaphor for the homosexual situation. You know, magic which is banned and dangerous, difficult and mysterious. I can see that use ... (Derek Jarman)

Loss is an inevitable part of change. ... (Sharon Weil)

They just change. Their body changes. Their abilities - the things they do that make them who they are - leave, sometimes temporarily, sometimes forever. Every day they wake up ... (Lindsey Leavitt)

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. ... (Carson McCullers)

We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries ... (Louie Gohmert)