FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling ... (Fleur Adcock)

High expectations I have. In hardness I labor that, fuller joy at the top I may partake. Nevertheless, in vain I toil. And then, friends'and people's reproach I become, because ... (Darmie Orem)

Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a ... (Julia Child)

Demanding recognition for something you did and getting angry or upset if you don't get it; trying to get attention by talking about your problems, the story of your illnesses, ... (Eckhart Tolle)

Radicals often suspect beauty of corruption. Uptight fuckers though they sometimes are, they're right in one thing: art alone cannot change the world. Pens can't take on swords, let alone ... (Molly Crabapple)

My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally ... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby ... (Douglas Coupland)

Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction. ... (Abhijit Naskar)

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. ... (Douglas Sirk)

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress. ... (Gautama Buddha)

I got lucky. As previously shared, April 16, 2009 found me face down on the disgustingly filthy floor of a very expensive apartment, close to alcoholic death. Left to me, ... (Brian Wacik)

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally ... (Andy Warhol)

I don't have terrible taste in women. I'm mad about you, aren't I?" "Are you?" "Yes, Blue. I am. I am completely gone on you. ... (Amy Harmon)

I am a face that people forget. But I am also a brain that forgets little. ... (Durjoy Datta)

I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed ... (Roger Ebert)

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers. ... (Tullian Tchividjian)

Children are the stars in the firmament, I would not miss the power of its glow in dark nights. ... (Kristian Goldmund Aumann)

Sorry wrong room. (Prior exits, goes to Belize.) PRIOR (Despairing): He's the Marlboro Man. BELIZE: Oooh, I wanna see. ... (Tony Kushner)

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between. ... (Patrick Roy)

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. ... (John Gierach)

The high stone fireplace, the heavy walnut tables, the fringed Oriental rug, the leather furniture. The air definitely came alive, but Willie felt out of place. Not because of any ... (Gloria Naylor)

My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop. ... (Jodi Picoult)

I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to ... (David Toop)

A toast! To the road! May it lead to adventure and carry us safely back home. ... (John Varley)

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." ... (Julia Cameron)

With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by devising policies to link up to ... (Talal Abu-Ghazaleh)

In tantric practice one identifies with a yidam of a particular buddha family corresponding to one's nature. For instance, if a yidam is associated with the ratna family, then he ... (Chogyam Trungpa)

My buildings are all on budget. ... (Frank Gehry)

I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an end. I could name the very moment when it had ... (Graham Greene)

For the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have inculcated both in their detractors and in their ... (Nina Power)

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain ... (Carl Jung)