FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class ... (Will Schwalbe)

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first ... (Charles Dickens)

The country was so vast, of course, that one or a hundred or a thousand men could have very little effect. And how, anyway, could one fault a people bringing ... (Karen Fisher)

My name is Asher Lev ... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker ... (Chaim Potok)

When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and ... (Hampton Sides)

To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional ... (Ruth Sawyer)

The daughter of the literary biographer Leslie Stephen, and close friend of the innovative biographer of the Victorians, Lytton Strachey, Woolf herself put forward, in 'The New Biography' (1927) (reviewing ... (Jane Goldman)

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability. ... (Kevin Powers)

I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of ... (Suzanne Collins)

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today. ... (Bob Seger)

I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls. ... (Anna Kendrick)

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. ... (Dave Eggers)

To be Happy , Love and Live;Laugh and give . Live with Faith , Hope and Enthusiasm . ... (R.v.m.)

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't ... (Kristina Adams)

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is ... (Jean le Rond d'Alembert)

Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . . . Donor communities invest billions funding peace talks ... (Leymah Gbowee)

As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a ... (Johnny Carson)

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left. ... (Danny Kaye)

A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find ... (Donald Barthelme)

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life. ... (Amit Chaudhuri)

Politics is history in the making. ... (Adolf Hitler)

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away. ... (Buck Henry)

So what is the solution for those who are struggling with the process of maintaining a positive mental attitude? Keep at it! If you plant a seed in the ground ... (David Fox)

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. ... (Osbert Sitwell)

I had spent the day friendless, lonely and sad, a stranger to myself. After drowning the day on the sea shore, I walked back to my empty house on the ... (Gulzar)

The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, ... (Maelle Gavet)

We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some ... (Mary Parker Follett)

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away. ... (Georgia O'Keeffe)

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things. ... (Thomas J. Sergiovanni)

Raicharan was twelve years old when he came as a servant to his master's house. He belonged to the same caste as his master and was given his master's little ... (Rabindranath Tagore)