FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

What was a country but the idea of it? ... (Kiran Desai)

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me. ... (Jim Bridwell)

I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all. ... (Tupac Shakur)

Ehlena was naturally lovely, with fine small features and that strawberry blond hair and those long, lean limbs. Her lips were pink because they were pink - not from some ... (J.R. Ward)

She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went smoothly and nothing occurred to justify her vague ... (D.E. Stevenson)

She went as through a forest the columns were furrowed like ancient trees, and in through the forest flowed the light, many-hued and clear as song, from the pictured windows. ... (Sigrid Undset)

You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches. ... (Curt Siodmak)

17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly, ... (Anonymous)

I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a ... (Eugen Herrigel)

I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him. ... (Tasha Smith)

I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I stand by my husband's stance on DADT. ... (Cindy McCain)

We were being offered exile on condition that we were silent about the reason we needed it. The silence chafed; it made us feel we were betraying those we had ... (Anna Funder)

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow ... I know people. Most have ... (Barbara Kingsolver)

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull ... (Bernard Berenson)

Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the ... (Stan Smith)

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream. ... (Tommy Hilfiger)

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart ... (Hill Harper)

If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world ... (Kathleen Norris)

I drive back into town with the two crinkly notes in my pocket and wonder if I could support a family this way, doomed to play dinner dances until I ... (Sting)

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. ... (Dave Eggers)

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle ... (Shea Hembrey)

I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else. ... (PewDiePie)

16So we do not lose heart. f Though our outer self [4] is wasting away, g our inner self h is being renewed day by day. ... (Anonymous)

Sorry!" the She-dogs yelled from the other side. "We're closed! ... (Shelly Laurenston)

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. ... (William Trevor)

The Tempus, a young woman, fair with light brown hair, bowed her head to him. So she knew to acknowledge a dragon lord, though that wasn't the role he played ... (Erin Kellison)

Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. ... (Garry Trudeau)

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. ... (Don Miguel Ruiz)

The summer had been like a dream, some parts of it a nightmare, but overall a good dream. Magic. ... (Elizabeth Kirke)

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left ... (Neil Gaiman)