FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

If I let him walk away now, we'll forever be a "just"; Just hockey player and skating coach. Just music swappers. Just friends. A not-quite-almost whose time passed through as ... (Sarah Ockler)

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and ... (Benjamin Franklin)

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every ... (Robert Gottlieb)

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax ... (Ken Kesey)

What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men ... Some of the best conversations I've ever had with men have been over a cigar. ... (James Belushi)

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important. ... (Francis Ford Coppola)

Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please ... (Frank Zappa)

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain. ... (Isabel Allende)

I thought you said something about a wolf' I began. 'Yes. That black beast that gnaws at my bones whenever he gets a chance. He loiters in corners and behind ... (Diane Setterfield)

If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or The Matrix, it would just ... (Nina Jacobson)

In the interval from about February to May 1609, there was considerable material progress in and about Jamestown. Perhaps forty acres were cleared and prepared for planting in Indian corn, ... (Charles E. Hatch)

They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first. ... (Nuala O'Faolain)

I never count countries. Travel is not a contest. ... (Andrew Evans)

Because I feel as if I let it down. As if it needed something from me, I was its only hope, and now that hope is gone.' 'What penis doesn't ... (R.J. Silver)

Don't text me while I'm in the middle of texting you! Now I have to change everything I wrote!" -Hasan Tutar ... (Hasan)

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. ... (Helen Hunt)

Imagine someone telling you that by taking a certain drug you could win a single event and be three times richer, famous for life in your country-and it won't hurt ... (Ned Overend)

He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of ... (Robert Wilder)

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. ... (Mary Stewart)

As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were perfectly dry. ... (C.S. Lewis)

Friendship is one mind in two bodies." Right. Until your BFF went out of her mind and after your ex-boyfriend's body. ... (Melissa Landers)

Labelling is no longer a liberating political act but a necessity in order to gain entrance into the academic industrial complex and other discussions and spaces. For example, if so ... (Krysta Williams)

Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains us in every expression of our ... (Thomas Berry)

I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release ... (Julia Cameron)

Stephanie, huh?" I ask, when she doesn't respond. "You go by Steph?" "No. Not Steph." she says as we cross the street to the familiar green and white Starbucks logo. ... (Lauren Layne)

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond ... (Thomas Jefferson)

Wilkinson remained a central figure in the Spanish Conspiracy even after he became a lieutenant colonel and later general and commander of the U.S. Army. Even without knowing that he ... (Gordon S. Wood)

You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee ... (Jerry Seinfeld)

These days I often have a struggle not to feel inferior to you, that is in your judgment of human beings.' 'I don't think I have any judgment, at least ... (Winston Graham)

Have you talked to Lindsay about me?" "Not really. But the night of that charity thing, when I was driving her home, she told me I should wait an appropriate ... (Sandra Brown)