FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I grew up having to care what people think; it was part of my job.I've been built up and torn down, built up and torn down. It's been difficult to ... (LeAnn Rimes)

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being ... (Jennifer Hudson)

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I ... (Barbra Streisand)

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the ... (Rupert Murdoch)

These conversations went on and on with person after person. I stood literally amazed by the grace of God, not just upon one Christian passionate about sharing the gospel, but ... (J. Mack Stiles)

It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a ... (Siobhan Fallon)

When the missionaries got to the part bout Adam and Eve being naked, the Olinka peoples nearly bust out laughing. Especially when the missionaries tried to make them put on ... (Alice Walker)

New levels bring new devils, more favours means more haters ... (Bishop T. D. Jakes)

I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your ... (Cassandra Clare)

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground. ... (Bill Bryson)

St. Leonard's Police Station DS Siobhan Clarke (pronounced "Shiv-awn") DI Derek Linford no friend to Rebus, disliked by Siobhan DCS Gill Templer officer in charge of St. Leonard's DC David ... (Ian Rankin)

In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is ... (Woody Allen)

And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did ... (Saint Francis de Sales)

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? ... (Ethan Zuckerman)

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again. ... (Nathan Lowell)

We had put our son into a little preschool in Los Angeles, and it was just not going well, so we brought him back home. We had every intention of ... (Jodi Benson)

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea ... (Angela Merkel)

Striving for balance forces a leader to invest time and energy in aspects of leadership where he will never succeed. It is not realistic to strive for balance within the ... (Andy Stanley)

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure. ... (Franz Wright)

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. ... (Rabindranath Tagore)

We're beings towards death, we're featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That's us. ... (Cornel West)

The planetary cycles are thus the threads of eternity which weave the great tapestry of life in time". ... (Pam Gregory)

Will you follow my path and be the light of the world to shine in that darkness? ... (Ted Dekker)

We must re-learn to be alone. ... (Ann Morrow Lindbergh)

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself. ... (Pierre Soulages)

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. ... (Paulo Coelho)

Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna, and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so-called Russian, type of ... (Leo Tolstoy)

Charles, a footman who had once worked on his father's farm and who loved animals, appeared and came over to help her prepare dishes of boiled chicken and brown rice ... (Tracy Anne Warren)

It seemed to me to be a parable of the exchange of goods, rather Marxist in some ways, in the new world of global forces. What the forgers do is ... (Marina Warner)

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood ... (Veronica Roth)