FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, ... (Michael Eric Dyson)

The idea of gas engines was by no means new, but this was the first time that a really serious effort had been made to put them on the market. ... (Henry Ford)

My Mother My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. She had what it's called natural wisdom, bless her precious ... (Euginia Herlihy)

I had spent the day friendless, lonely and sad, a stranger to myself. After drowning the day on the sea shore, I walked back to my empty house on the ... (Gulzar)

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea. ... (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed. ... (Jean-Philippe Toussaint)

Traditional businesses are profit maximizers, which square perfectly with Motivation 2.0. These new entities are purpose maximizers - which are unsuited to this older operating system because they flout its ... (Daniel H. Pink)

There was something incongruous about one marriage ending the same day another began, as if there was an exchange program in the universe or something, a trade required in order ... (Sarah Dessen)

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. ... (James Madison)

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight. ... (Jerry Coleman)

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?" ... (Thomas Sowell)

I remember the day when my seventh-grade teacher called my parents to tell them I'd been crying in the bathrooms at lunchtime after Sukey died - how disappointed Dad was ... (Hilary T. Smith)

I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going on. They called me up ... (Pete Wentz)

Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt no spontaneous attraction to any occupation. ... (Milan Kundera)

And if you write something that cheers someone up when they're feeling down, doesn't that change the world? ... (Meg Cabot)

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears. ... (Tupac Shakur)

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with ... (Joy Williams)

I believe that once you find something you love, something that works, why keep looking for more? People always think there is something better around the corner. I decided a ... (Wendy Mass)

The goal of God is to increase His people; both the quantity and the quality of believers ... (Sunday Adelaja)

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency ... (Robert Greene)

When people ask me what I believe now, I don't want to weigh them down with "I'm a Unitarian Universalist Neo-Pagan scientific pantheist humanist who practices Buddhist insight meditation (Vipassana)," ... (John Halstead)

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been ... (Alain de Botton)

The mother again remarked the simplicity and calmness of their relation to each other. it was hard for her to get used to it. no kissing, no affictionate words passed ... (Maxim Gorky)

And yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise ... (Jodi Picoult)

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with ... (Mother Teresa)

I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice is something that belongs to West African culture. ... (Baaba Maal)

I loved 'Funny Lady' for whatever reason. People say they didn't know I could sing and dance. Well, nobody ever asks me - it's always, 'Punch this guy.' ... (James Caan)

If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

She thought ray i'll never see ray again there was a time she looked into those green eyes and said i love you so long ago he'll never know i ... (Lois Duncan)

...the leader must 1) avoid getting swamped in detail; 2) not be petty; 3) not be pompous; 4) know how to select people to fit the task; 5) trust others ... (J. Oswald Sanders)