FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I inhale slowly, soaking it all in. I step forward and backward, my neck twisting and turning, memorizing every corner. I feel an instant connection to this place. Something about ... (Corey M.P.)

You can see right away,' the old man said, 'that he hates us but hides his hatred under a layer of sycophancy. They all hate us. How could they not? ... (Amos Oz)

You are a writer - you write one chapter and go on to the next and the next and so forth. You manage the story, you control the ending, no ... (Patrick Timm)

At the end of the day, Esperanza stepped into Myron's office, sat down, and said, "I don't know much about family values or what makes a happy family. I don't ... (Harlan Coben)

I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some ... (Jerry Rice)

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an ... (Theodore Roosevelt)

The child cannot too early learn to be a good citizen? I think this is questionable: citizenship is an adult affair. Let school and home teach the child to respect ... (Clifton Fadiman)

I think mothers get a raw deal in American culture, so I've been defending them. I have three daughters, and I know that as they become mothers, they got a ... (Tyne Daly)

In time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the most hostile. Many hearts contain great beauty and ... (Dean Koontz)

Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create. ... (Bryant McGill)

The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into ... (Jodee Blanco)

Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include, for example, 'How do new ... (Lynn Margulis)

I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging ... (Michael Crichton)

Rules were invented by elders so they could get to bed early. Men who speak endlessly on authority only prove they have none. And kings who make speeches about submission ... (Gene Edwards)

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down ... (Virginia Woolf)

There is the image of the man who imagines himself to be a prisoner in a cell. He stands at one end of this small, dark, barren room, on his ... (Sheldon B. Kopp)

No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile - not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents, or siblings. No one leaves his ... (Paulo Freire)

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time. ... (Bruce McCulloch)

My Mother My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. She had what it's called natural wisdom, bless her precious ... (Euginia Herlihy)

Dissmell is the affect that monitors our drive for hunger. It was primarily developed as a survival mechanism. As we've become more complex, its use has extended interpersonally. Prejudice and ... (John Bradshaw)

Batmanghelidj says there are two oceans of water in the body, intracellular and extracellular. The saline content of the water outside the cells is said to be similar to the ... (Steve Meyerowitz)

Clancy. You really want to pretend we're on the same team?" "Aren't I basically the mascot? ... (Alexandra Bracken)

Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an ... (John Fugelsang)

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head. ... (Byron Katie)

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. ... (Sydney, Lady Morgan)

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period. ... (Terrell Owens)

Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life- written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author? And suppose you could only read it ... (Jean Webster)

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. ... (Rhonda Byrne)

Nurses on transplant wards often remarked that male transplant patients show renewed interest in sex. One reported that a patient asked her to wear something other than "that shapeless scrub" ... (Mary Roach)

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers21 that ... (Rebecca Goldstein)