FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the ... (Mark Lawrence)

My emotional range is limited. I can't do grief, but rage is my friend. For instance, I hate death by sickness. It is nothing like Homer, the Old Testament, and ... (Jessica Zafra)

We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and then expelled into space to be incorporated into ... (Carl Sagan)

Would my head were a head of lettuce. I drove the last car over the Sagamore Bridge before the state police closed it off. The Cape Cod Canal all atempest ... (Peter Orner)

You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery. ... (Anne Rice)

He used to say that life was all about a boy finding the perfect girl; he was lucky enough to have been handed his in a labor and delivery room. ... (Jodi Picoult)

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful ... (Sarah Kane)

Meaning I want to put words to it. I want to give it a name. I'm not okay with kissing you and holding you, being by your side for all ... (Catherine Gayle)

His lids lowered and he brushed her cheek with the tips of his fingers. "What if I fall in love with you?" She turned her face into his palm. "You ... (Rachel Gibson)

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out ... (Kumi Naidoo)

Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women, both in cognitive speculation, demonstrated in writing, and ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works ... (Clay Aiken)

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. ... (Agatha Christie)

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. ... (Montesquieu)

It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? ... Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge? ... The truth is that ... (Noel Pearson)

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin. ... (Thomas Brooks)

The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction. ... (George W. Bush)

Love covers a multitude of sins. ... (John Connolly)

You're like a crazy cat lady, but you collect killers instead of fluffy cats." "I don't collect killers." "Yes, you do, and those who aren't killers turn into killers by ... (Ilona Andrews)

If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would ... (Socrates)

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. ... (F Scott Fitzgerald)

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of ... (Roger Moore)

You know what, life is full of temptations. ... (Smokey Robinson)

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. ... (Oprah Winfrey)

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly. ... (R.A. Lafferty)

So you did get it?" I asked, suddenly babbling. "I wasn't sure. I mean, sometimes we don't get very good reception at school. But I guess you know that, living ... (Alyxandra Harvey)

All great adventures start with an idea. ... (A.J. Compton)

The human brain is incredible in its capacity to heal and rewire itself. The human brain can be shaped and trained to be more resilient, calm, compassionate and alert - ... (Christopher Dines)

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love. ... (Jeffrey Eugenides)

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes. ... (Herta Muller)