FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months." ... (Thom Yorke)

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a ... (Seth Godin)

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly. ... (Simon Barnes)

He rubbed his hands. For, of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that. "We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies ... (Aldous Huxley)

He shrugged. "It's a little too late for that." "I know, but if you just explained to her, maybe she'd still let you--" "I already ruined my guitar. I broke ... (Melissa M. Futrell)

If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can ... (Steve Keen)

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, ... (Rebel Wilson)

He's been looking at my file. So the question has to be right there on the tip of his tongue right about now, waiting to be spoken. But he keeps ... (Cyma Rizwaan Khan)

Trick." I say a little louder. "Shhh, sleep baby." He mumbles. I laugh and smack his arm. "Wake up. I can feel your morning wood." This gets his attention and ... (K. Larsen)

I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you. But since we've been separated, I may most miss coming home to deliver the narrative ... (Lionel Shriver)

I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way ... (Rivers Cuomo)

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary ... (Issa Rae)

They're mean bastards, those monks," I said. I was supposed to deliver a weekly cartload of firewood to Saint Rumwold's, but that was a duty I ignored. The monks could ... (Bernard Cornwell)

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it ... (Betty Smith)

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office ... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit ... (Malcolm Forbes)

Paper is brain interface. Paul Saffo ... (David Sibbet)

U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time ... (Jimmy Chamberlin)

To understand our world, we must use a revolving globe and look at the earth from various vantage points. If we do so, we will see that the Atlantic is ... (Ryszard Kapuscinski)

Can we walk for a bit?" he says. "Yes, that would be lovely." But as I start getting up I lose my footing and slip and fall - right over ... (Zoe Sugg)

Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they ... (RZA)

What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It ... (Sri Aurobindo)

You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But ... (Anne Bronte)

Ah, me lovely Jo, let's mosey outside and talk." He finally released her hand. "I need to know where and when I can take ye." Really, demon, double entendre? As ... (Kresley Cole)

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law ... (Laurence Tribe)

Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We ... (Lisa Kleypas)

We were here to become like God. To live like his blessed son. We just needed a few pints of Christ's blood to do so. ... (Christopher Pike)

Idiot. People say that those who call others idiots are the real idiots. I don't care if I'm an idiot, so I'll call you one. Idiot! You should have told ... (Ryohgo Narita)

I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work. ... (Rachel Kushner)

Instead, we must focus on our hopes. If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated. ... (Robin Hobb)