FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll ... (Jamie Lidell)

Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people were hurrying along the streets toward ... (Italo Calvino)

So if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid ... (Guillaume Musso)

Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There's a great book inside, with recipes, pie ... (Shauna James Ahern)

My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office. ... (Moby)

I can't not be with you, Nathan. I wanted to leave you in that grave and walk away but I couldn't. I can't walk ten paces away from you without ... (Sally Green)

O the sad frugality of the middle-income mind. O the humorless neatness of an intellectuality which buys mass-produced candlesticks and carefully puts one at each end of every philosophical mantlepiece! ... (Robert Farrar Capon)

I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish. ... (Raymond Chandler)

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context. ... (Neal A. Maxwell)

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more ... (Thomas Carlyle)

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture? ... (Leven Rambin)

He was the one for her. She somehow knew that no one could make her feel the way did. Not if she lived for another hundred years. ... (Anam Iqbal)

Utilizing" a resource means making use of the resource in a way that moves the system toward the goal. "Activating" a resource is like pressing the ON switch of a ... (Eliyahu M. Goldratt)

I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes. ... (Kimberly Caldwell)

My father's concern for his patients was only enhanced by the fact that so many of them had a personal connection to him...In the words of the historian David J. ... (Barron H. Lerner)

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running ... (Bruce Lee)

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not ... (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? ... (Christopher Marlowe)

Don't allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable. ... (Osho)

The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he ... (James Baldwin)

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. ... (Washington Irving)

Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes. ... (Janet M. Tavakoli)

I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past. ... (Wilbur Smith)

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win. ... (Ken Blanchard)

When we cannot handle our suffering, we spew forth our frustration and pain onto those around us. We are victims of our own suffering, but because we do not know ... (Thich Nhat Hanh)

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: ... (David Sedaris)

It's really hard to be what everybody wants you to be. ... (Demi Lovato)

People are like that here. Strangers smile at you on the beach, come up and offer you a shell, for no reason, lightly, and then go by and leave you ... (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the ... (Ronald Reagan)