FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the ... (Brock Yates)

When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in ... (John O'Hara)

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl. ... (Patti Stanger)

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake ... (Kat Kaelin)

The kind of trust that is necessary to build a great team is what I call vulnerability-based trust. This is what happens when members get to a point where they ... (Patrick Lencioni)

I went to Dave Eggers with this idea of doing a movie about a guy going through some sort of Frank Capra-esque journey. ... (John Krasinski)

He wonders if it's some sort of twisted joke the adults are having, shoving hormonal teens into tight quarters but making it impossible to do anything but breathe. "I wouldn't ... (Neal Shusterman)

So let me get this straight." ... "He threw the note at Tommy and then told him to fuck off? Or do I have it backwards?" "I'm detecting some sarcasm." ... (Brigid Kemmerer)

I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on ... (Peter Weiss)

White is a particularly unusual color because it can also be seen as the absence of color. ... (Kenya Hara)

People generally have three reactions to the gospel, to hearing the name of Jesus; they either are drawn to it like fireflies drawn to a flame, they run away from ... (Lisa Bedrick)

In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind the act? It was in retaliation ... (Loren D. Estleman)

It never ceases to amaze me how many Christians, in the North and the South, continue to refer to the former as the "developed" and the latter as the "developing" ... (Vinoth Ramachandra)

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well. ... (Lynette Fromme)

Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, What governments failed ... (John Gaddis)

My siblings had already instilled the notion of black pride in me. I would have preferred that Mommy were black. Now, as a grown man, I feel privileged to have ... (James McBride)

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you ... (Anna Brackett)

His reaction to the idea was not simple. He felt a great warmth that they should want to give him a party and at the same time he quaked inwardly ... (John Steinbeck)

Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it ... (Hendrik Poinar)

Do not stand downwind from a sweaty person ... ... (Ivana Hruba)

Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs. ... (Abhijit Naskar)

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values ... (Jacob Bronowski)

Put in a patrol wagon. ... (Charles A. Siringo)

Ken was Mary's new boyfriend, a nice guy who made all their friends comments, "Oh, there he is. That's what she's been waiting for," as if finding your perfect match ... (Jennifer Close)

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information ... (Henry Jenkins)

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the ... (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity." ... (Lyman Abbott)

Roque ... lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the ... (Miguel de Cervantes)

Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude. ... (F.F. Bruce)

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up ... (John Berger)