FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

As a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant, Sheba had lived in Charleston since she turned five years of age. She was Ethiopian by birth, but American by preference. She had worked hard, ... (Joanna Hynes)

My friend Wicker once said to be careful what and how you say what you're really thinking to a woman. After much screwing up in that department with Emma, I've ... (Cyndi Goodgame)

We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with barbarism. ... (Sigmund Freud)

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am. ... (Emily Blunt)

Which will you take, the high road or the low road?" "Which one is longer?" "They're both short. ... (Yasutaka Tsutsui)

He stroked her pale cheek with his thumb, willing her to open those dark gypsy eyes he loved so much. He needed her impish gaze, her light laughter and intoxicating ... (Brooklyn Ann)

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life. ... (Lois Lowry)

If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a ... (Paul Ekman)

(After Nicholas tells Dahlia that he loves her) " ... Just don't break my heart my heart, Dahlia. I've never handed it over to anyone before." She placed both hands ... (Christine Feehan)

Where did you say you were from, girl?" Uniloma asked gruffly one morning. The vessel was far out to sea, giving a wide berth to the coastline of western Holt ... (Julia Golding)

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep. ... (Jean-Paul Sartre)

It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, especially if the attachment to 'you' is part of what composes ... (Judith Butler)

It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The ... (Daphne Zuniga)

Myron headed down the steps. Without warning a man wearing a blue blazer and aviator sunglasses stepped in front of him. He was a big guy - six-four, two-twenty - ... (Harlan Coben)

Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of work itself, days on which ... (Elisabeth Elliot)

Nothing like love to put blood back in the language, the difference between the beach and its discrete rocks and shards, a hard cuneiform, and the tender cursive of waves; ... (Margaret Atwood)

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. ... (Ken Follett)

Mainstream economists habitually treat asset depletion as income, while ignoring the value of the assets themselves. If the owner of an old-growth forest cuts it and sells the timber, the ... (Anonymous)

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard. ... (Mark Twain)

The poet Lord Byron famously proclaimed that lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating. ... (Tilar J. Mazzeo)

When Zeus[Jupiter]first saw Aphrodite[Venus]& Aphrodite thus first saw Zeus, it was love at first sight.Naturally. Since Zeus was the King of the Gods, who loved all beautiful Goddesses.And Aphrodite was ... (Nicholas Chong)

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting. ... (Orrin Woodward)

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain. ... (J.K. Rowling)

He has spent weeks on the pristine, frosty shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. He has drunk himself stupid in the fairy-tale blood brothels of old Dubrovnik, lounged in red-smoke ... (Matt Haig)

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. ... (John Clayton)

Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. ... (John Kenneth Galbraith)

As I've reflected back on both, I realize that my neighborhood was just like The Wire. We had the drug dealing, the police brutality, the murders. Well, it was /almost/ ... (Baratunde R. Thurston)

Infinity is forever, and that is what you are to me, you are my forever Mr. Black. ... (Sandi Lynn)

Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual. ... (Karen Armstrong)

Denied access to information about important arenas of human life, history, and art, women like Augusta Welland demonstrate well into adulthood a lack of moral insight and sympathetic compassion. ... (Edith Wharton)