FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

It's killing me, baby," he says, his voice much more calm and quiet. "It's killing me because I don't want you to go another day without knowing how I feel ... (Colleen Hoover)

The people in 'July, July' do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must ... (Tim O'Brien)

I wouldn't know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?' 'But then I could wind up with something like you.' 'I'm not so bad,' he says. ... (Kaui Hart Hemmings)

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own ... (Thomas Merton)

If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of ... (Arthur Stanley Eddington)

You have the power and control to be whatever you want to be, no matter where you start in life. ... (Joey Graceffa)

You must decide whether you want a DO-CONFIRM checklist or a READ-DO checklist. With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. ... (Atul Gawande)

The storm was resting. It didn't want to be, but it was. It had spent a fortnight understudying a famous anticyclone over the Circle Sea, turning up every day, hanging ... (Terry Pratchett)

When I was a kid, I wanted to be as good an actor as Patrick, as cool as Frakes, and as funny as Brent. From time to time, one of ... (Wil Wheaton)

We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we ... (Ban Ki-moon)

His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive. He seeks to remind himself, by every electric shock to the intellect, that he ... (G.K. Chesterton)

It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a ... (Jenna Fischer)

Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial killer. They offered me the part and I ... (Tinsel Korey)

Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy ... (Mark Batterson)

Desperaux," she said. He saw his name on her lips. "I honor you," whispered Desperaux. "I honor you. ... (Kate DiCamillo)

[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma. ... (Viktor Korchnoi)

More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea . . . That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

Marina Orlova was hooked on my quote about women not owing men. I scrolled through her posted paintings and recalled a Slovak friend once commenting on a guy wanna-be a ... (Vinko Vrbanic)

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence ... (Nina Hoss)

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with ... (Gregory David Roberts)

That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head. ... (Christopher Buehlman)

The love between a brother and sister just over a year apart in age held fast. It wasn't twinship, and it wasn't romance, but it was more like a passionate ... (Meg Wolitzer)

I think nineteenth-century women lucky, with their largely sucky marriages and segregation into a subjugated and repressed gender caste. They had it easier on this one front: They could maintain ... (Rebecca Traister)

We also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope." Romans 5:3-4. Suffering develops in us, qualities of ... (Christian Love)

When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, ... (Mary Shelley)

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. ... (George Eliot)

New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it. ... (Bill Maher)

Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In ... (H.P. Lovecraft)

Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I've known them for 20 years almost. I've written songs ... (Maxwell)

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11. ... (Sara Paretsky)