FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between ... (Roger Rosenblatt)

The loving and much loved wife is satisfied with the love of her husband; his smile is her joy, she cares little for any other. So, if you have come ... (Robert E. Murray)

Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus. ... (Jules Verne)

Losing this part of my life, this time of being a mother to growing children, is indeed an ending. For months, I've carried that quiet sorrow, getting used to its ... (Katrina Kenison)

I liked it. I craved it. I wanted more and I took it. I took it like I needed it, like my life had a limit and if I didn't ... (Kristen Ashley)

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. ... (Thomas Wentworth Higginson)

Make love to me," she whispered. "That's my plan." "You think you can?" she asked. He smiled along her neck. "I think so. ... (Lucian Bane)

These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as "Will I ever do time?" and "Did this girl have a trusting heart?" The smell of meat and blood clouds ... (Bret Easton Ellis)

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive ... (Leora Tanenbaum)

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention. ... (Mary Stuart Masterson)

So how's Cupid Day treating you?" He pops a mint in his mouth and leans closer. It grosses me out, like he thinks he can seduce me with fresh breath. ... (Lauren Oliver)

And the earth itself still turning on its axis and revolving around that sun, the sun revolving around the luminous wheel of this galaxy, the countless unmeasured jewelled wheels of ... (Malcolm Lowry)

Anything before you're thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world's going to hell. ... (Daniel Suarez)

Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as ... (Alex Abreu)

Human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here! ... (Yuval Noah Harari)

I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman. ... (David Alan Grier)

It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I do not need to explain to you, because ... (Chris Cleave)

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative. ... (Gilbert K. Chesterton)

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ... (Martin H. Fischer)

Your daughter's a very enthusiastic scientific worker." "I know," I said rather disconsolately. "It worries me sometimes. It doesn't seem natural, if you know what I mean. I feel she ... (Agatha Christie)

The community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity ... (Plato)

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. ... (Norman Douglas)

Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the ... (Jonas Mekas)

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure - the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of ... (Alexander McCall Smith)

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting ... (Adam Mansbach)

Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central ... (Judith Lewis Herman)

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with ... (George Eliot)

The practice of giving thanks ... eucharisteo ... this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of ... (Ann Voskamp)

It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and ... (Bill Bryson)

T is as cheap sitting as standing. ... (Jonathan Swift)