FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring. ... (Mary Timony)

Religion and science, for example, are often thought to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach ... (Jonathan Haidt)

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a ... (Geshe Kelsang Gyatso)

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections. ... (Mary E. Pearson)

I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft ... (Elijah Wood)

1. Earth, birthplace of the human race, a species much like our own, capable of great compation, and great violence. For in our quest to protect the humans, a deeper ... (Optimus Prime)

The Enneagram is not a system of personality, as it is so often presented, but rather a definition of character fixation. The same character fixation can manifest across a full ... (Eli Jaxon-Bear)

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and ... (John Thorn)

It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout. ... (Cheryl Tiegs)

What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?" "No." Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, the other held over it in a fist. "Rock, paper, scissors. Two out of ... (Abigail Roux)

The Czechs are downright crazy about mushrooms! In late summer and autumn, a foreigner might even get the impression that the number of sponge-hunting Czechs roaming about in the forests ... (Terje B. Englund)

Since Monday, it has been raining buoyant summer rain shot through with sun, but dark at night and full of sound, full of dripping leaves, watery chimings, sleepless scuttlings. Billy ... (Truman Capote)

Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of ... (Daniel Kahneman)

It was around this time that I'd begun trying to perfect the art of fucking with people's minds. I'd figured out that when someone else was hogging the limelight, you ... (Ryu Murakami)

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He ... (Richard Armour)

I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name. There've been covers down through the years around ... (Bob Seger)

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known. ... (Marion Woodman)

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system ... Lacking a central nervous system - much less a brain - the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise ... (Daniel Suarez)

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of ... (H.G.Wells)

HER: "Why do you like me as a little girl?" HIM: "Because you are - by nature ... (Renee Rose)

Balance lives in the present. When you feel the earth moving, bring yourself back to the now. You'll handle whatever shake-up the next moment brings when you get to it. ... (Oprah Winfrey)

I wrote an entire book about death, called 'It's not About the Bike', about confronting the possibility of it, and narrowly escaping it. (...) What I didn't and couldn't address ... (Lance Armstrong)

It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous ... (Ben Klassen)

My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter. ... (Troy Duffy)

Only the cosmos inspired great feeling in him. Perhaps what he felt was love, but he'd never consciously named it. His was an all-consuming one-directional romance with the emptiness and ... (Lily Brooks-Dalton)

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call ... (Warren Farrell)

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice. ... (John Nichol)

I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the ... (Angela Merkel)

The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater. ... (Walter Isaacson)

I won't bite, you know," he said. "I might lick, but I won't bite." "I don't want you to lick either." "I will lick only where you like, how is ... (Sherry Thomas)