FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration ... are ... (Margaret Atwood)

Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are ... (Oren Lyons)

By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted ... (Eric Hoffer)

Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the ... (Jay Leno)

Let us trust the power of love, and fly by spreading the wings of love. ... (Debasish Mridha)

One-and-twenty sorts of birds," said Ser Kyle. "One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings," said Ser Maynard. "You have no poetry in your heart, ser." "You have shit upon your shoulder. ... (George r r martin)

Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno. ... (George W. Bush)

The structure of the corporation is a telling case in point - and it is no coincidence that the first major joint-stock corporations in the world were the English and ... (David Graeber)

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living. ... (Joe Tye)

But when you walk through yonder gate," Churchill said, pointing toward the Middle Tower at the end of the causeway, which was visible only as a crenellated cutout in the ... (Neal Stephenson)

Just one word, infused with naked desperation; half prayer, half enchantment. It felt like a freezing charm on her soul making her his prisoner, yet setting her free all at ... (Genevieve Dewey)

Life Life is a 'stage' Every day is a book's new page. The most of life you should make, Every difficulty, as an opportunity, you must take. What you make ... (Sanchita Pandey)

Oh, Adam. When will you stop messing everything up? And why do I keep letting you? ... (Kiersten White)

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved ... (Louisa May Alcott)

You're nothing like your sister," he tells me. "She meant a lot to me, okay? It's true. But the things I like about you have nothing to do with her. ... (Hannah Harrington)

You take your car in for checkups more than you take your body in for checkups. And you change the oil in your car more than you change some of ... (Neale Donald Walsch)

As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world. ... (Steven D. Levitt)

One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly ... (Neil Gaiman)

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. ... (Richard Whately)

I didn't feel so bad about the myrrh, because I've never been quite certain what it is. ... (Hugh Laurie)

Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on. ... (Robert B. Leighton)

The Beautiful is the expression of the absolute Spirit, which is truth itself. This region of Divine truth as artistically presented to perception and feeling, forms the center of the ... (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from? ... (Elie Wiesel)

This process is like starting a fitness regimen for the brain. At the beginning, your muscles burn a little. But over time and with repetition, you become stronger, and the ... (Sarah Miller Beebe)

I may not be able to keep fighting for money ... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am. ... (Nick Diaz)

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right. ... (Adam Sandler)

If I ever cheated on my wife, I think she'd have my balls cut off. If you don't want to castrate this guy after what he's done, then he's not ... (Penny Reid)

The United States wore empire on its brow ... (Herman Melville)

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence. ... (Dalai Lama)

They spoke to each other in strange, strangulated voices, and lost the knack of making each other laugh, jeering at each other instead in a spiteful, mocking tone. Their friendship ... (David Nicholls)