FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

You know what the best part of having a gay son is?" Cam looked over to Thomas and cocked his head. "What's that?" "I inherit a second son," he said ... (Jaime Reese)

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. ... (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this ... (Chris Matakas)

But Aoi found it impossible to fully open herself up to any of her new friends. She could laugh with them, rant with them, even play at falling in love ... (Mitsuyo Kakuta)

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S. ... (Khaled Hosseini)

Hey," Natalie said. "You're here early." "It's almost seven. Why are you covered in chocolate? Your clothes and your ... your face. Both your faces." Luke looked at Natalie, really ... (Ophelia London)

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples ... (Cordelia Fine)

Mick required far less hand-holding than Michael. Signing the Stones, though, had required a full frontal assault worthy of General Patton, one of my heroes. The final battle exploded at ... (Walter Yetnikoff)

We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it was everything. And then it became not cool ... (Ice Cube)

Your opponent will often be blind to your design, being consumed with his own. Do not subconsciously seek accolades of your ingenuity and thus call attention - be sated by ... (Shannon Kirk)

That there was in her life the absence of something, or someone, fundamental to her own existence. Sometimes it was vague, like a message sent across shadowy byways and vast ... (Khaled Hosseini)

Many young Christians admire the words and works of Jesus (information) but do not know him as Lord and God (wisdom). They read and respect the Bible (information) but they ... (David Kinnaman)

I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person. ... (Stefanie Powers)

Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you ... (Bill O'Reilly)

When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, ... (Brandon Stanton)

My share, it should be lost. ... (Ingeborg Bachmann)

There are all kinds of ways and reasons that mothers can and should be praised. But for cultivating a sense of invisibility, martyrdom and tirelessly working unnoticed and unsung? Those ... (Shonda Rhimes)

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. ... (C.S. Lewis)

Listen to yourself speak, saying, "The knowledge of God has no practical application." Do you know why all your Christian bookstores are filled up with self-help books, and five ways ... (Paul David Washer)

SO RISKY, to love another person! Like flaying your own, outermost skin. Exposed to the crude air and every kind of infection. ... (Joyce Carol Oates)

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause ... (William Shakespeare)

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. ... (George Santayana)

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard ... (Andrea Barrett)

It's inevitable. When you meet the one who makes you smile as you've never smiled before, cry as you've never cried before... there is nothing to do but fall. ... (Renee Ahdieh)

I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal. ... (Carmen Electra)

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a ... (John Shirley)

Why target two and a half million innocent newborns and children?" Barbara Loe Fisher asks of the hep B vaccine. The implication behind the word innocent is that only those ... (Eula Biss)

I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like ... (Lorenzo Carcaterra)

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill. ... (Agatha Christie)

My heart is filled with endless praise. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)