FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the school lunch system so that it can actually ... (Michael Pollan)

The most important thing we can do to save our oceans is to dramatically expand our efforts to establish new marine protected areas and make sure that critical fish spawning ... (Serge Dedina)

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

Sometimes we might poop a bit if we are fresh. Which is just what I did, out on the cart that day: I pooped a bit while fresh, in my ... (George Saunders)

It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ... (Oriah Dreamer)

The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, ... refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from ... (Chalmers Johnson)

Let me help," he said. "You've been taught all your life that killing another person is wrong, and that belief persists even in the fact of facts. Not only would ... (Ilona Andrews)

She loved Manhattan and could not imagine living anywhere else, but her world was upside down now, and, well, there was nothing certain in her future. ... (John Grisham)

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ... (Sarah Caldwell)

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. ... (Marilyn Ferguson)

I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny. ... (Terence Lewis)

My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever ... (Jane Birkin)

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them. ... (Logan Lerman)

You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever ... (Elliot Perlman)

There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and the person you love, and a time when love hurts so ... (Julieanne O'Connor)

The sound of my voice brought the life back to her limbs, and the colour to her face. She advanced, on her side, still without speaking. Slowly, as if acting ... (Wilkie Collins)

All things are only transitory. ... (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he ... (George Packer)

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true. ... (Amit Abraham)

WENT ON a long journey by telephone last week. It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, ... (Theodore Dalrymple)

My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end ... (Kourtney Kardashian)

ECW stands for Extremely Crappy Wrestling. ... (Jerry Lawler)

Then in 1914 things changed. Partageuse found that it too had something the world wanted. Men. Young men. Fit men. Men who had spent their lives swinging an ax or ... (M.L. Stedman)

America is best described by one word, freedom. ... (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question. ... (Edwin Hodge)

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession. ... (Julia Ward Howe)

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, ... (Abraham Lincoln)

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it. ... (Marlon Wayans)

Open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for 'security'. ... (Tony Judt)

Who are you and what breaks your heart? ... (Andy Stanley)