FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. ... (Sophie Aldred)

Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the fright spring-coiled inside me would break loose. Then ... (Sue Monk Kidd)

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product. ... (Carol Bartz)

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground. ... (Dhirubhai Ambani)

Shh." I squeeze his hand. His palm feels clammy. "We have to keep it down, okay? We don't want my dad coming in." He grits his teeth against more shivers. ... (A.G. Howard)

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of ... (Mary Gardiner Brainard)

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me. ... (Alexander Pushkin)

I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye ... (Tom Morello)

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows ... (Herman Melville)

Mary has the authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven. As a reward for her great humility, God gave her the power and mission of assigning to saints ... (Louis de Montfort)

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today. ... (Frank Herbert)

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all ... (Yolanda Adams)

That pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is ... (Vita Sackville-West)

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a ... (Elizabeth Goudge)

Wait: His boyfriend? He was gay? The focus on the lens sharpened, and I could see it clearly now. Of course he was gay. Everyone could see that, except the ... (Sarah Hepola)

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what's happening on another planet, but not what's going on inside the person next to you. ... (Graham Spaid)

She's not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. She's the kind of girl you fight to the death for. ... (Colleen Hoover)

Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater ... (Thomas Sowell)

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. ... (Seneca the Younger)

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find ... (Ron Perlman)

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, ... (Audrey Niffenegger)

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and ... (Dan Barker)

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect ... (Jane Fonda)

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the ... (Louis L'Amour)

The temperature in that hangar would sometimes get down to 40 degrees, and very often I had to put on long underwear, which was so restrictive I suffered from an ... (Larry David)

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of ... (John Podhoretz)

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago. ... (Kel Mitchell)

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What ... (Naomi Klein)

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy. ... (Nathan Fillion)

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. ... (Kate Winslet)