FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?' enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over. 'One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full ... (Michel Faber)

I tell them that Im a lesbian but doesnt seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we havent met the right guy yet, or ... (Jill Bennett)

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles ... (Veronica Roth)

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The ... (Tom Robbins)

The truth is, we think church is for people living in the "after" picture. We think church is for taking spiritual Instagrams and putting on our best performances. We think ... (Rachel Held Evans)

With his iPod all the way up, nothing in this world can touch him. Just over his pulse is a fresh tattoo- a dotted line and the words Cut Here ... (Ron Koertge)

As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, ... (Jo Brand)

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because ... (Taylor Swift)

Where are you going?" Millie whispered, although why she was whispering was a bit of a mystery since the sound of yelling, along with a lot of cursing, was flowing ... (Jen Turano)

Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not ... (T. S. Eliot)

Robert, there's a creature inside of you that I'm not good enough to bring out, not strong enough to reach. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long ... (Robert James Waller)

And then he did rise from his wheelchair. But there was something odd about the way he did it. His blanket fell away from his legs, but the legs didn't ... (Rick Riordan)

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other ... (Virginia Postrel)

Mom's already dead!" I yelled at him. "Who the hell do you think you're saving?" And he just gave me his Sad, Tired look. It's one of the three he's ... (Barry Lyga)

It's perverting the course of justice is what it is. Do ... (Bess Hart)

Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought. ... (Fulton J. Sheen)

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust. ... (Robin Hobb)

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it. ... (Marshall Goldsmith)

Religious fermentation is always a symptom of the intellectual vigor of a society; and it is only when they forget that they are hypotheses and put on rationalistic and authoritative ... (William James)

He had to admit it: he'd missed being engrossed in a case. He even missed the microfiche machines he'd had to use before everything went online, tucked invariably in a ... (Sharon Guskin)

To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which ... (Dinah Maria Murlock Craik)

More than once in the days that followed [Eustace] attempted to write it for them on the sand. But this never succeeded. In the first place Eustace (never having read ... (C.S. Lewis)

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will. ... (F Scott Fitzgerald)

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny ... (Ali Smith)

I came into reality television with MTV's show 'The Real World,' specifically the 1994 season set in San Francisco. I was glued to the Puck and Pedro drama. ... (Molly O'Keefe)

Vimes died. The sun dropped out of the sky, giant lizards took over the world, and the stars exploded and went out and all hope vanished and gurgled into the ... (Terry Pratchett)

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful. ... (Max McKeown)

12And the LORD said to Moses, 13"You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, 'Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between ... (Anonymous)

How sad, however, if we're given Our youth as something to betray, And what if youth in turn is driven To cheat on us, each hour, each day, If our ... (Alexander Pushkin)

We Poets exist for this very purpose. We set men free from their desires. I don't understand you. You talk in riddles. What? You don't understand me? And yet you ... (Rabindranath Tagore)