FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success. ... (Robert Orben)

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds ... (Pico Iyer)

She was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn't safely criticize anymore, ... (Liane Moriarty)

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope. ... (Rosalind Miles)

Lots of old guys wore beige trench coats and those flat caps that made them look like boys who sold newspapers a hundred years ago. ... (A.J. Cattapan)

Cam looked away, laughing under his breath. "Okay. How about Wednesday?" "This Wednesday?" "Nope." "The following Wednesday?" "Yep." Counting the days down, I ended up frowning. "Wait. That's the Wednesday ... (J. Lynn)

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible. ... (Eugene McCarthy)

In the words of Meredith Grey, you're dark and twisty, okay? ... (J.M. Darhower)

Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. ... (Martin Clunes)

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet. ... (Danny Kaye)

On his world record triple jump - It's only jumping into a sandpit. ... (Jonathan Edwards)

But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book budget had been slashed and the hours cut. ... (Laura Lippman)

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend. ... (Olivia Wilde)

[T]he more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn't training us for a calm ... (Scott Lynch)

In a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets ... (Jodi Picoult)

He was drowning in depression and contemplating suicide. One day a friend noticed that his outlook had changed to hopeful serenity. The soldier attributed his transformation to reading Man's Search ... (Viktor E. Frankl)

Private Perkins is a funny little codger. ... (George Henry Powell)

That was some powerful shit. Like mind and pussy-numbing, fuckilepsy inducing, reproductive organ-exploding powerful. You really are some kind of flogger wielding sex God. ... (Ella Dominguez)

Unfathomable cosmos came into being at the word of the Eternal's imagination, a solitary voice in endless darkness. The breath of His mouth whispered the sea of stars into existence. ... (Anonymous)

I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be. The people who lived around our ... (Shannon A. Thompson)

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I ... (Cherie Lunghi)

Life is on-going experiment. The moment the experiment ends, life ends. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

Sing, Marie of Arras. Do not forget, Marie of Arras. ... (Zoe Oldenbourg)

Television viewership has been declining for a number of years. The internet has been blamed. Everything has been blamed. Except for what I think the problem is: that the networks ... (Edward Allen Bernero)

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen. ... (Alice Hoffman)

All failures are so because they lack social interest. ... (Alfred Adler)

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women. ... (Stephen Merchant)

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. ... (Chinua Achebe)

I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of ... (Serena Williams)

You can't lose the game. You can't go wrong. It's not part of the plan. There is no way not to get where you are going. There's no way to ... (Neale Donald Walsch)