FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because ... (Chris Colfer)

As Pliable and Christian find themselves walking together toward the narrow gate, we see the stark contrast between the two pilgrims. One is burdened; the other is not. One is ... (John Bunyan)

It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, ... (J. William Fulbright)

Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You have the whole last century libraried and you ... (Robert Montgomery)

Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I ... (Jean-Dominique Bauby)

I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else. ... (Jay London)

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever. ... (Sylvia Townsend Warner)

I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup. ... (Eric Morecambe)

The lack of balance between the birth-rate of the "unfit" and the "fit," admittedly the greatest present menace to the civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a ... (Margaret Sanger)

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week ... (George S. Patton)

We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state also targets such victims; ... (Karen Armstrong)

As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port heaven, Friend, what years could us divide? ... (Dinah Maria Murlock Craik)

You fight a war to change the world, and it changes into a world with no place in it for you, the fighter. Those who fight for the bright future ... (Terry Pratchett)

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, ... (Lord Byron)

He sauntered to the counter. "What can I do for you?" The red bandana he wore held back the hair that typically covered his eyes. I loved his eyes. Chocolate-brown, ... (Katie McGarry)

Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, ... (Pope Leo XIII)

So thou being rich in Will add to thy Will One will of mine to make thy large Will more. Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill; Think all but ... (William Shakespeare)

"That first day when we met, when I gave you my estimate for the deck project and you wouldn't shake my hand ... " I laced my fingers with hers. ... (Lisa Kessler)

Sometimes people run ... to see if you'll come after them ... (Ally Carter)

Exists. Why all these speeches and monuments. Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. I eye all the Golds in their badges and Sigils and standards, all worn to legitimize ... (Pierce Brown)

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are. ... (Johnnetta B. Cole)

The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current culture might inspire ... (Karina Longworth)

He wants to feel good, he always used to feel good at every turning of the year, every vacation or end of vacation, every new sheet on the calendar: but ... (John Updike)

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy. ... (Henry Jenkins)

Why is it that we want so badly to memorialise ourselves? Even while we're still alive. we wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. we put ... (Margaret Atwood)

You're flying to Chicago to get drunk and have other women shake their boobs in your face." "If it bothers you, I won't go," he said seriously. "No," I kicked ... (L.D. Davis)

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it. ... (Wanda Urbanska)

The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly. ... (Marissa Meyer)

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey. ... (Igor Stravinsky)

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals. ... (Robert Ferrigno)