FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those ... (Craig Ferguson)

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. ... (Gretchen Rubin)

I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on ... (Shirley Jackson)

Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness ... (David McRaney)

I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it, ... (Luis Figo)

A ... difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural ... (Lawrence Joseph Henderson)

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear. ... (Don DeLillo)

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back ... (Albert Einstein)

If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that. ... (Uday Kiran)

I'm extremely humbled, I'm happy and I'm blessed, because at the end of the day, I'm doing what I love to do. ... (La'el Collins)

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet! ... (Joel Osteen)

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other! ... (Bear Grylls)

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. ... (Thomas Fuller)

I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find perfect felicity in specialized knowledge and because they ... (Vladimir Nabokov)

The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both ... (Venita VanCaspel)

But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying. ... (J.A. Redmerski)

For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than culture whose effect is the emancipation of reflective ... (Alain de Benoist)

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing. ... (Epicurus)

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to ... (Rob Thomas)

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers. ... (Thomas Aquinas)

Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent. ... (Vince Vaughn)

Love has a way of making us stupid, Will Henry. It blinds us to certain blatant realities, in this case the spectacularly high mortality rate among monstrumologists. Rarely do we ... (Rick Yancey)

Few things rival the torment of the once-famous actor, the fallen politician or, as Tocqueville might have remarked, the unsuccessful American. ... (Alain de Botton)

I want to have a good vacation before I have to go back home and start my 'big girl job'," Lori said, nose deep into the visitor's guide, but still ... (Lindsay Chamberlin)

His hand gently caressed my leg as his lips nibbled on mine, and the tip of his tongue began asking permission, teasing me with short licks of my tongue that ... (Zack Love)

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in ... (Roddy Doyle)

Men don't talk about their feelings. Don't you know that? ... (Karla Brandenburg)

By the altar, which is made of massive slabs of stone untouched by tools since hewn from the quarry and set up in this vast edifice, a barefooted priest wearing ... (Jose Saramago)

A customs man at JFK had asked them to open the suitcases (in case they were smuggling in Indian fruits or sweets, perhaps). 'Ulysses!' the large bespectacled disbelieving customs man ... (Amit Chaudhuri)

If people ask me, 'For you, what is your most important film?' I have a feeling that they all sort of want me to answer with one of the Bergman ... (Max von Sydow)