FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Desire is the outcome of sensation - the outcome with all the images that thought has built. And this desire not only breeds discontent but a sense of hopelessness. Never ... (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

There's no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own. ... (Margaret Mazzantini)

I was greeted by the Ulmers' eleven-year-old daughter, a girl of remarkable poise. Mrs. Ulmer was busily typing a manuscript that needed to make the evening mail and after welcoming ... (Robert Bruce Stewart)

The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the ... (Edwin Way Teale)

Why?" His question was almost buried by my heavy breathing. I think I understood the question now. I could only hope I had the right answer. If there was one. ... (Adrienne Wilder)

Dear Pighead, The reason I am so distant is because, well, there are two reasons actually. The first reason is my drinking. I require alcohol, nightly. And nothing can get ... (Augusten Burroughs)

New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster, then ... (Nathan Myhrvold)

I don't want to dig him or his sexy self. But I keep losing my clothes when I'm with him. ... (Jill Shalvis)

Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the ... (Steve Erickson)

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. ... (Laurence J. Peter)

With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor ... (Ursula K. Le Guin)

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out ... (George Matthew Adams)

I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.' ... (Ellen DeGeneres)

The best horror novels open up, It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air. ... (Justin Alcala)

All right prayer has good effect, but if you give your whole life to the prayer you multiply its power ... No one really knows the full power of prayer. ... (Peace Pilgrim)

Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, ... (C.S. Lewis)

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and ... (John Hawkes)

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders. ... (Gloria Steinem)

You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause. ... (Queen Latifah)

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so tired mutilated either by ... (Charles Bukowski)

I really do believe that the bottom line that creates transformation in the individual is the ability to focus your attention in an ever greater and more subtle way, and ... (Beryl Bender Birch)

One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. ... (Robin Wasserman)

It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and ... (Harry Elmer Barnes)

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child I am twelve-and-a-half years old but it still isn't ... (Judith Martin)

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly. ... (David Lee Roth)

I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of ... (Mary Rose O'Reilley)

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. ... (Dan Quayle)

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work. ... (Susane Colasanti)

All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You ... (David Hume)

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you. ... (Dr. Seuss)