FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry ... (Dermot McCabe)

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man. ... (Linda Kozlowski)

My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records ... (Dave Matthews)

Why do men entertain this queer idea that what is sordid must always overthrow what is magnanimous; that there is some dim connection between brains and brutality, or that it ... (G.K. Chesterton)

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. ... (Steve Buscemi)

Half an hour into the movie, Margot started giggling, but it wasn't a funny part or anything. When Quinn looked over at her, she was covering her mouth and nose ... (Andria Large)

The mentality of today seeks in fact to reduce everything to temporal categories: a work of art, a thought, a truth have no value in themselves and independently of any ... (Frithjof Schuon)

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ... (Rachel Nichols)

If you love someone so much and they love you as the same dont let go of them fite for them showem how you true feel no lies no bs ... (Mike Radcliff Jr)

Knowing what we know, how much more do we want to give Him something? But He seems to have everything. Well, not quite. He doesn't have you with Him again ... (Henry B. Eyring)

God, why do You love me?" BECAUSE I AM LOVE. "God, when do You love me?" ALWAYS. "How do You love me?" WITH GRACE, PATIENCE, AND FORGIVENESS. "God, am I ... (Helo Matzelle)

Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or ... (Lea Michele)

She imagines that she is a seed, driven by the wind, that withstands cold and heat, the worst possible conditions, until one day it falls, like the Bible says, on ... (David Bowles)

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all ... (Christina Grimmie)

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're ... (Neil Gaiman)

In the expectant quiet, there were only the usual sounds of the night. Wind in the big trees out past the school wall, starting to rise as the sky darkened, ... (Garth Nix)

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like ... (Mary Lambert)

When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant." I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the ... (Alan Dressler)

In his Dialogue "Timaeus" Plato had a demiurge to create the globe-shaped world according to musical laws, including the human soul. Fifteen hundred years later, that still found an echo ... (Harry Mulisch)

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The ... (Arundhati Roy)

The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought ... (Daniel Keyes)

Because I knew that racist Negro Archetypes, like Bebe's Kids, don't die. They multiply. ... (Paul Beatty)

Ve always believed if you're involved even in a very small struggle - in some sort of infinity in a grain of sand - in your local neighborhood, that every ... (John Nichols)

In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike. Gratitude expressed to ... (Robert D. Hales)

Don't worry, he's coming with me to investigate things." "In the city?" Jim asked. "Yes." "That's a great idea. You both should go. To the city." Curran and I looked ... (Ilona Andrews)

When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored his campaign's central argument that this was a ... (Jeff Greenfield)

So basically be careful never to be too awesome or you will be mysteriously executed just like Martin Luther King and Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln and JFK and Malcolm X ... (Cory O'Brien)

For some, like me, writing comes at a price. My best creations were written while I was emotionally ripped open. I've spent some scenes so mentally self-exposed that I could ... (Jennifer Salaiz)

Movie. What's my favorite kind of movie?" "Is there a point to this?" "Please, Lucy. What's my favorite movie?" "Horror. Why?" "No reason," I sighed as I slouched back in ... (Kaitlin Scott)

In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of ... (Ian Fleming)

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically ... (David Pearce)

People who were born in '66 are nearly fifty? I know the show's fifty, but it seems like yesterday. Human years are different. I'd have guessed that Tim was twenty-five ... (Nick Hornby)

You will never know the love I feel for her. How beautiful it is. How painful it can be. What it felt like when I first looked at her. And ... (Sarah Brianne)

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a ... (Maxwell Maltz)

I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge cartons. "Really? I thought every girl has seen that movie and can quote it ... (J. Lynn)

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better ... (George Alec Effinger)

Take just one well-known event: The Beatles' 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. This has been depicted with astonishing regularity as a pivotal cultural moment; in fact an entire ... (Jonathan Leaf)

I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I ... (Leonard Nimoy)

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They ... (Lauren Oliver)