FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so ... (Steven Pinker)

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper. ... (Rasheed Ogunlaru)

Tears started to cloud my vision, and a single stream fell down my face. Wiping my cheek, I straightened my back and looked into my eyes. I wanted to make ... (E.M. Abel)

Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, ... (Rebecca Solnit)

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?! ... (Geraldo Rivera)

As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met ... (Charlotte Bronte)

Walli's sister came into the room. Lili was almost three years younger, and these days he was not sure how to treat her. For as long as he could remember ... (Ken Follett)

I think they need to remove the general. He is unfit for the position he is being called upon to serve, precisely because he's become a liability. He's become a ... (James Zogby)

This party was not in the least like a party a wolf would throw. For one thing, no one had shown up smashed. For another thing, even though it started ... (Kristen Ashley)

William: What do you think of the fact that your home has been invaded by women? Maddox: I couldn't be more pleased, as long as none of them does something ... (Gena Showalter)

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. ... (Frederick Lenz)

Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal ... (Paul Watson)

I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section. ... (Chic Murray)

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off. ... (Karl Malone)

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart. ... (Fiona Apple)

It's best to lay out your makeup as you would when planning your outfit. If you're using a brightening primer, then be judicious with your use of shimmer and sparkly ... (Tim Quinn)

She had burned through a fair sampling of manhood trying to find someone, not to make her "happy" - that wasn't the point - but to cauterize her relentlessly dripping ... (Arthur Phillips)

He took a deep breath. "You make me question myself," he said. "All the time, every day. I was brought up to believe I had to be perfect. A perfect ... (Cassandra Clare)

Do not read the newspapers. ... (Henry David Thoreau)

I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly. ... (Vladimir Nabokov)

As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied. ... (T.I.)

I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes. ... (Laini Taylor)

How can scholars continue to honor the unique and important histories of individual tribal nations and Indian communities while simultaneously drawing attention to ways that the nineteenth-century Native experiences shaped ... (C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa)

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action. ... (Price Pritchett)

Rise so high, in mud you lie. ... (Pierce Brown)

Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to ... (Rachel Kadish)

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What ... (Annie Dillard)

It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But ... (Gregory Hines)

In this very special self-hypnotic state there can be no question of getting out of touch with on[e]self and floating into a normal sleep (unless you are very tired at ... (Vladimir Nabokov)

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. ... (Simone Weil)