FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me quiet and they kept me entertained, and they ... (Donald Richie)

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. ... (James Cromwell)

God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not to have this so over-simplified as the illusioned ... (Criss Jami)

His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, "You spend time with your son?" "Much as I can," he'd answered, but his father had caught the lie in his eyes. ... (Blake Crouch)

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. ... (Danielle Steel)

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you ... (Michael Scott)

Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and ... (Ravi Zacharias)

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell among all the delights of the open world on ... (Edwin Way Teale)

Prescott's life was changed from the accepted norm of a proper Bostonian by that crust of bread. While in his junior year at Harvard,the students one day,while eating in the ... (Victor W. von Hagen)

I am certain that I'm not the only one who would like to have a do-over on an interaction with a loved one. ... (Lisa J. Shultz)

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to ... (Lesley Manville)

Once upon a time Somebody say to me (This is a dog talkin' now) What is your Conceptual Continuity? Well, I told him right then (Fido said) It should be ... (Frank Zappa)

Wesley Crusher: Say goodbye, Data. Lt. Cmdr. Data: Goodbye, Data. [crew laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Was that funny? Wesley Crusher: [laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Accessing. Ah! Burns and Allen, Roxy ... (Star Trek The Next Generation)

I live a healthy lifestyle and I crave healthy food. I love porridge - I have bizarre cravings for it. I love it with brown sugar and bananas, and I'm ... (Jessica Lowndes)

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to ... (Pirjo Honkasalo)

Prickly When I'm feeling porcupine-y, I get nasty, I get whiny. Stay away or I might stick you. My sharp words are quills to prick you. ... (Laura Purdie Salas)

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear ... (Marilynne Robinson)

We get used to pretty ... eventually, we get used to sunsets and falling stars and things that sparkle. ... (Laura Miller)

The basic idea of a portfolio life is that instead of thinking of your work as a monolithic activity, what if you chose to see it as the complex group ... (Jeff Goins)

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for ... (Freddy Adu)

Silence and twilight fell over the garden. Far away the sea was lapping gently and monotonously on the bar. The wind of evening in the poplars sounded like some sad, ... (L.M. Montgomery)

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know. ... (Alexander Pope)

Knights die in battle," Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. "As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them. ... (George r r martin)

The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful ... (D.H. Lawrence)

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime. ... (Jennifer Lee)

We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to ... (David Stove)

There is a spark of magic inside everyone. The tragedy of life is most people never realise their true potential, they live and die without ever turning that spark into ... (Michael Khatkar)

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom. ... (Paul Theroux)

It was something Ferdo said. We may not have it all, you and I, but we have more than is granted most men or women, he told me, and he ... (Mary Brock Jones)

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional ... (Lawrence R. Klein)