FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

He listened to the keening of the wind whistling through holes in the walls, and he pondered the thought that there might be something out there in the dark - ... (Robert McCammon)

I just get a feeling sometimes that everything is predetermined, and I am going through the motions of tracing an existence that will be what it will already be. ... (Reif Larsen)

Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail. ... (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)

So what? You act all mysterious to seem more interesting?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're always wandering off or running away," he said. "But you're a lot more interesting ... (Jennifer E. Smith)

They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But ... (John Marsden)

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. ... (John C. Maxwell)

I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career. ... (Don Howe)

There were some very good books in the backseat of the little Volkswagen; good books were the best protection from evil that Pepe had actually held in his hands - ... (John Irving)

When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to "being crazy" and having had abusive parents, clients will choose "crazy" most of the time. Dora, a 38-year-old, was profoundly abused ... (Lisa Ferentz)

I think that I'm running from something I heard on the radio That everybody's working for the weekend When does the weekend start? What comes at the end of the ... (Henry Rollins)

( ... ) It's like all the lights are on, but no one's home. No one cares. ... (Alexandra Bracken)

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark ... (Jaron Lanier)

There he is, bent over the page, with a monocle in his right eye, wholly devoted to the noble but rugged task of ferreting out the error. He has already ... (Machado de Assis)

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. ... (Quentin Tarantino)

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. ... (George Bernard Shaw)

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive ... (Thomas Lennon)

Few, in the days of early youth, Trusted like me in love and truth. I've learned sad lessons from the years; But slowly and with many tears; For God made ... (Lydia Maria Francis Child)

And then, without any warning at all, he presses his lips against mine. As his mouth covers my own, I find myself reeling, as if I have been tipped backward ... (Robin LaFevers)

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was ... (James Lind)

And hell upon those who tell us to be twice as good and shoot us no matter. ... (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

This book is dedicated to my mother. ... (V.C. Andrews)

Instead I'm worried about my son being led astray by a harlot. A harlot named Brooklyn. Her parents probably named her that because skank was too obvious even though they ... (Tara Sivec)

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed ... (W. Somerset Maugham)

Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk ... (Rob Brezsny)

The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness ... (Galway Kinnell)

I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts - Heaven, bless the merry child! He's father's self in face ... (Mary Howitt)

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. ... (Tom Peters)

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour. ... (Paloma Faith)

A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world ... (Keahu Kahuanui)

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator. ... (Edward Abbey)