FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When a film's heroine innocently coughs, you know that two scenes later, at most, she'll be in an oxygen tent; when a man bumps into a woman at the train ... (Lucy Grealy)

Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was ... (Shannon L. Alder)

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way. ... (Carrie Mae Weems)

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. ... (Eric Hobsbawm)

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D ... (Bill Gates)

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis ... (Ian Jack)

These three or four scriptures also have been great refreshments in this condition to me: John xiv. 1-4; John xvi. 33; Col. iii. 3, 4; Heb. xii. 22-24. So that ... (John Bunyan)

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday. ... (Josh Hartnett)

If someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly. If ... (Miguel Ruiz)

There are so many rules in the art world. I don't like rules and I break them all the time. I don't care if people think I'm overexposed. What I ... (Marina Abramovic)

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. ... (George McGovern)

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life ... Freedom demands structure. ... (Garrison Keillor)

You are the strangest girl I've ever met," he said, like he thought I was joking. He picked up his water bottle and gave me a sideways glance. "Have you ... (Katie Kacvinsky)

It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: "How did you decided to ... (Eeva Kilpi)

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few ... (Joyce Meyer)

I was born and raised on steel river I see it all like it was yesterday The ships and bridges they were all delivered From Sydney harbour to the Cisco ... (Chris Rea)

I want to know what love is. I want you to show me," said Tyson, grateful that this planet was allowing a foreigner to share this experience with it. ... (Leonard Delaney)

But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that ... (Pierre Boulle)

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you ... (Alison Mosshart)

I hate having my hair cut so I try not to. ... (Leona Lewis)

It's not always easy to find the motivation to push yourself to higher limits. But when you surround yourself with people who inspire you, you'll find that their attitudes and ... (Anonymous)

He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the ... (W. Edwards Deming)

Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time and reflecting on the food, having ... (Grant Achatz)

You won't reach anywhere... if you lie! ... (Deyth Banger)

Imagination flourishes best in solitude. ... (Anthony Storr)

1. Live now. Be concerned with the present rather than with past or future. 2. Live here. Deal with what is present rather than with what is absent. 3. Stop ... (Claudio Naranjo)

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. ... (Sebastian Thrun)

A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can ... (Betty Smith)

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to ... (Amiri Baraka)