FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I'd call a team meeting.) ... (Steven Pressfield)

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the ... (Stephen Bayley)

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels. ... (Candace Bushnell)

Do what? Kill me? Then my blood would be on your hands - more than it already is - as well as that of your four dear friends. Because you, ... (Douglas Preston)

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible. ... (John Wesley)

What are the unreal things, but the passions that once burned one like fire? What are the incredible things, but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the ... (Oscar Wilde)

There already exists the electronic capability for the tracking of individual behavior by centralized networks of surveillance and record-keeping computers. It is highly probable that the conversion to nuclear energy ... (Marvin Harris)

Blood is thicker than water, The young man said As he knifed his friend For a drooling old bitch And a house full of lies. ... (Ernest Hemingway,)

Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, ... (W. H. Auden)

The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~ ... (Alan Cohen)

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, ... (John Pearson)

Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea pig. But there was a long tradition of ... (Max Barry)

My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first ... (Matt Prokop)

I missed you." There was a pause. Then Tariq turned to her with a half-grinning, half-grimacing look of distaste. "What's the matter with you?" How many times had she, Hasina, ... (Khaled Hosseini)

The attachment to parental figures I am trying to describe here is an attachment to parents who have inflicted injury on their children. It is an attachment that prevents us ... (Alice Miller)

A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of ... (Walt Whitman)

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry ... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really. ... (Adriana Lima)

When we are able to stay present with the internal discomfort created by the idea that somebody else might be mad at us, we end up becoming a bodhisattva with ... (Ethan Nichtern)

It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar. ... (N. Murray Edwards)

I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to ... (Susan Sarandon)

You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together. ... (Sean Covey)

Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his stage for 20 minutes. ... (Wendy Starland)

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily. ... (Epictetus)

I am exalted over all the nations, my glory above the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before me; strength and glory are in my sanctuary. I wrap myself in light ... (Zhang Yun)

For me really good acting is about subtext. ... (Clive Owen)

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. ... (Orson Scott Card)

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one! ... (Marcus Aurelius)

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we ... (Keith Henson)

The Things That End Mourn what you lost. Celebrate what you had. All things come to an end. Just as all things come to a beginning. ... (pleasefindthis)

I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning. ... (Pansy Schneider-Horst)