FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel ... (Stephenie Meyer)

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition. ... (Sade Adu)

Deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness ... (Ernest Agyemang Yeboah)

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a ... (Rumi)

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God. ... (Andy Stanley)

Girl next to me at the baggage counter said she wrote her way to liberation. How did you handle first person narrative, I asked her. And said she knew the ... (Kate Millett)

We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us. ... (Nick Veasey)

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business. ... (Penn Jillette)

Such disappointments, betrayals and reconciliations were the stuff of married life, but she and Jack had gone through them before the wedding. Now, at least, she felt confident that she ... (Ken Follett)

We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can ... (Marianne Moore)

The overriding thought in my mind is that I didn't have the foresight to say goodbye or thank you to the people I love. That sounds corny, I know, but ... (Colin Cotterill)

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. ... (Alan Bennett)

Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie? I've seen history out this window. So ... (Paul Fleischman)

I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media. I feel like politicians ? the way I explain it, is when you go to a zoo and a monkey throws ... (Jon Stewart)

Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. ... (Edmund White)

Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten. ... (Stephen R. Lawhead)

I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that ... (Thomas Schelling)

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. ... (Alexander Pope)

I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with ... (Agona Apell)

Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost ... (Rafael Yglesias)

He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to ... (Jasmine Warga)

Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and brings out the absolute worst along with the ... (Jessica Gadziala)

And cruelly, surely, I said to her, "Did you love this child?" I will never forget her face then, the violence in her, the absolute hatred. "Yes." She reached for ... (Anne Rice)

I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for ... (George Rodger)

I've a devil of a habit for being right. ... (Catherynne M Valente)

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it ... (Mary Hunter Austin)

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. ... (Richard Matheson)

Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad. ... (Bryce Courtenay)

Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike), and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted me to be part of their films. That ... (Matthew McConaughey)