FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with ... (Gary Allan)

Indeed, in the midst of the devastation, most Londoners demonstrated a dogged determination to live as normal a life as possible: it was their way of thumbing their nose at ... (Lynne Olson)

My brothers are idiots. Anyone can see that under the scars and the attitude, Isabeau is more fragile than she looks. And as a reclusive Hound princess, her first introduction ... (Alyxandra Harvey)

It's too soon, too fast. We don't even know each other." "Says who?" Ethan demanded. "Who decides how long it should take? Who makes the rules?" Erica shrugged because she ... (Melissa Hale)

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may ... (Walt Whitman)

9/11/01 Gina: Especially today, with the enormity of current events, I want to convey to you again, how much you mean to me and how proud I am to be ... (Michael Spehn)

Not the soul that's whitest Wakens love the sweetest: When the heart is lightest Oft the charm is fleetest. While the snow-frail maiden, 5 Waits the time of learning, To ... (A.E.)

April 10: Marilyn appears on time for six hours of costume tests for Something's Got to Give. She is irritated that Cukor is not there to meet her. She looks ... (Carl Rollyson)

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock ... (Carolyn Mackler)

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy. ... (Yoko Ono)

She's the one who sits in the back of the classroom. The one who never raises her hand. The one who might be the smartest girl you'll ever know. But ... (Sarah Mares)

It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait ... (Richard Ford)

I wish I were a poet. I've never confessed that to anyone, and I'm confessing it to you, because you've given me reason to feel that I can trust you. ... (Jonathan Safran Foer)

The question from agnosticism is, 'who turned on the lights?' The question from faith is 'whatever for?' Thoreau climbed Mount Katahdin and gives vent to an almost outraged sense of ... (Annie Dillard)

When Eleanor smiled something broke inside of me ... something always did ... ... (Rainbow Rowell)

What I crave more than anything today is to sit at an outdoor cafe on a cool autumn day. I just want to feel that end-of-the-year breeze as I sip ... (Damien Echols)

A Japanese woman friend whose infant son died seven days into his life - no detectable reason - just the small breathing becoming nothing until it disappeared, told me that ... (Lidia Yuknavitch)

We're going to be married and hardly touch each other and have to work and work and never have any fun and we're just going to be okay with it ... (Cassie Mae)

Justice Denied Thousands of women, probably more I cannot reach them behind justice doors Many stay silent, barred just like me. Haunted by demons, faces unseen. Still by the hundreds, ... (Diane Chamberlain)

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable ... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as ... (Danielle Steel)

One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can ... (Frank Herbert)

BOTTOM There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies cannot abide. How ... (William Shakespeare)

Tam: What begg'st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: 'Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me ... (William Shakespeare)

My Mother My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. She had what it's called natural wisdom, bless her precious ... (Euginia Herlihy)

I lost my voice and my best friend too On swift, fierce winds and wings of blue, The cold rain fell where beams had shone, So I wrapped up tight ... (Elaine Vickers)

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside. ... (Emmanuelle Beart)

Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sparked flames like the forest caught in a wild fire! ... (Avijeet Das)

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns. ... (Benjamin Franklin)

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible ... (Wyndham Lewis)

I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. ... (William Faulkner)

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries ... (Sean Penn)

Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the ... (J.M.E. McTaggart)

I've learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough. ... (Jack Welch)

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing. ... (Jason Schwartzman)

I actually got so drunk I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl of the Scollay Square Cafe and got pissed and puked on all night long by a thousand sailors ... (Jack Kerouac)

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a ... (Frank Borman)

I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of ... (Julian Critchley)

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable ... (Jacopo della Quercia)

I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw ... (Anne Geddes)

Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?' 'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings ... (Tove Jansson)

One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue ... ... (David Hilbert)

I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings. ... (L. Duarte)

You are the biggest fool of a boy I've ever known," Mott said. Then his tone softened. "But you will serve Carthya well." "I wish I felt ready to do ... (Jennifer A. Nielsen)

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a ... (Saul Bellow)

Imagine a very long time passing - and I find my way out, following someone who already knows how to leave Hell. And God says to me on Earth for ... (Elizabeth Knox)

Times were changing in the world of id. They had finally fired Jason, narrowing the group to Carmack, Romero, Adrian, and Tom. But something else was in the air. The ... (David Kushner)

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail. ... (Stefania Mattana)

Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year. ... (Raymond Chandler)

The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect. ... (Billy Graham)

While the Bible does speak clearly on many matters - you'd have to be deaf not to hear the condemnations of murder, stealing, adultery, greed, etc. - there are, in ... (Ken Wilson)

Doctor Nolan had said, quite bluntly, that a lot of people would treat me gingerly, or even avoid me, like a leper with a warning bell. My mother's face floated ... (Sylvia Plath)

Behind every dark cloud is a silver lining (photo taken by me yesterday afternoon). Just like a cloud is a free spirit ... allow your dreams to be the same ... (Stephen Richards)

The imprint left on her mind by the long famished body that had seemed in the darkness to consist of nothing by sharp crags and angles, the memory of its ... (Margaret Atwood)

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better ... (George Alec Effinger)

We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O ... (Nizar Qabbani)

So Captain Jack's come a-courtin'." Her hands stilled on the basket. "Who?" "The tall Shawnee who come by your cabin." The tall one. Lael felt a small surge of triumph ... (Laura Frantz)

There's something fun about the road because there's no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don't ... (Hunter Hayes)

Vibe high and the magic around you will unfold. ... (Akilnathan Logeswaran)

Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend it; but there is no ... (Eliza Leslie)

Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course ... (Robert Burns)