FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after ... (Cuthbert Soup)

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes ... (Joni Mitchell)

As important as it is to learn the techniques of cinematography, you also have to learn how to deal with the movie set, with show business. I came up with ... (Maryse Alberti)

What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which ... (Charles Churchill)

I watched as my slippers reflected the torches when I was handed out of the carriage. When I looked up, I gasped. I had heard of the lovely palace of ... (Sarah Holman)

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff is the deadliest disaster in maritime history, with losses dwarfing the death tolls of the famous ships Titanic and Lusitania. Yet remarkably, most people ... (Ruta Sepetys)

Every night my plan was to make it to dawn and then feel out the options. But that was just it there were no options. There had been options, before ... (Miranda July)

I choked on the air I'd just sucked in and swung around in disbelief. "What did you just say?" "Me and the whole PD heard about your wet bra, so ... (Rachel Brookes)

Wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too. ... (Mohlalefi j motsima)

Balkanization is a feature of the ad agency industry, but it is not a universal phenomenon across all service industries. Somehow, management consulting firms (again!) expanded their technical capabilities and ... (Michael Farmer)

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see. ... (Melody Carlson)

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose. ... (Laozi)

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back. ... (Sandra Chami Kassis)

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse. ... (Roger Ascham)

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands. ... (Abdallah II of Jordan)

My world shattered that day. I lost my best friend. I lost my heart. My shield. My soul. And buried it right along with his body. The boy who hadn't ... (Rachel Van Dyken)

Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others ... (Troy Polamalu)

I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom. ... (DeAngelo Williams)

Lots of people use good character and moral standing as a brand name. They know it's what people like, they want people to like them, so they wear it as ... (C. JoyBell C.)

One doesn't question a miracle. ... (Simon Beaufoy)

We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be ... (Ray Kurzweil)

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance. ... (Robert Fripp)

Size me up and get goosebumps, boys. I'm the widowmaker and the slayer of jungles, the mean-eyed harbinger of desolation! I've ripped a catamount asunder and sprinkled his fragments in ... (Ron Hansen)

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel. ... (Emanuel Swedenborg)

Hazel wanted to ask him what he was thinking, what he was feeling, if he was regretting the witch or was just too tired to think, if he was embarrassed ... (Anne Ursu)

It was such a dismal time in Japan. It almost seemed as if they were dying as a people, their economy in tatters, the population dwindling, the remaining citizens isolated ... (Don Lee)

A good tree never seizes to bear good fruits. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

It's not about me being good enough for you, Fletcher. It's whether you're good enough for me. Silence. And then hang-up beeps. ... (J.A. Huss)

You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life. ... (John Addison)

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity. ... (Douglas Coupland)