FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My mother said, "Arturo, stop that. Your sister's tired." "Oh Holy Ghost, Oh Holy inflated triple ego, get us out of the depression. Elect Roosevelt. Keep us on the gold ... (John Fante)

One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team ... (Charlie Weis)

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our ... (Walt Disney Company)

Falling in love: how does it work? Over the years we gather the odd clue, but nothing adds up. We'd like to think we have a picture of our future ... (Michel Faber)

The power of the man, with a mind shut down. The strength of the super human. The survival of the species. The deafness of a beast. That's the power of ... (Deborah Ainslie)

Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder ... (Bertrand Russell)

I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in ... (Doug Benson)

Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she ... (Alyson Noel)

Are you conscious of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed ... (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative. ... (Alison Thompson)

One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The ... (Susan Ee)

I think being so passionate about something is a talent in itself. ... (Hiromu Arakawa)

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people. ... (Lauren Mayberry)

Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates development from fossil fuels, supports people in the ... (Mary Robinson)

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the ... (Michel de Certeau)

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve. ... (Frederick Lenz)

Matt asked me to join the Upright Citizens Brigade, a relatively young sketch group. They needed a girl. I had heard of their shows around town, which seemed like a ... (Amy Poehler)

The count came back to young Morcerf. 'Don't you think,' he said, 'on reflection that you were wrong to speak in that way about your mother-in-law in front of Debray?' ... (Alexandre Dumas)

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some ... (Anton Chekhov)

The Lord God is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the "river of the water of life" that runs, and "the tree of life that grows, in the ... (Jonathan Edwards)

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it. ... (Alexander Whyte)

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. ... (Louisa May Alcott)

This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that ... (Eleanor Roosevelt)

I can tell by your eye shadow, you're from Brooklyn, right? ... Me too. My mother has plastic covers on all the furniture. Even the poodle. Looked like a barking ... (Elayne Boosler)

One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. ... (Gail Thackray)

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person. ... (Diana Wynne Jones)

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking. ... (Jerry Seinfeld)

I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn't know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted ... (Madonna Ciccone)

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do ... (Gene Stratton-Porter)

They kept moving all night, stopping only occasionally to scoop some water from a stream or listen to see if anyone was following them or near them at all. As ... (Joel C. Rosenberg)