FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months ... (Ralph Peters)

I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they are. And I'd tell them ... (Beyonce Knowles)

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers. ... (Pam Houston)

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: ... (N.K. Jemisin)

That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men ... (David Bradley)

Dressing, I chose the second shirt, the one softened in the mouth of a trained and perfumed albino hippopotamus and made entirely of pigeon's wool, because it goes better with ... (Nick Harkaway)

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to ... (Christopher Hitchens)

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, ... (Chuck Noll)

An education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that inculcates a particular vision of the good life by inscribing or infusing that vision into the heart (the ... (James K.A. Smith)

While Diana finds the monarchy as presently organized a crumbling institution, she has a deep respect for the manner in which the Queen has conducted herself for the last forty ... (Andrew Morton)

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and ... (Amber Rose)

Maia, we now know, is going to land in Indonesia. They ... (Ben H. Winters)

Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? ... (Henri J.M. Nouwen)

Rhys gave no warning as he gripped my arm, snarling softly, and tore off my glove. His touch was like a brand, and I flinched, yielding a step, but he ... (Sarah J. Maas)

There has always been a correlation between money and art. ... (Simon de Pury)

The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of ... (Steve Donoghue)

Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable of writing a really good game. My dad's ... (Fred Haslam)

History was indeed controlled by blind forces, as well as character and courage and treachery and love. And accident and random chance. And stray bullets and telegrams and tips. And ... (Connie Willis)

Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm. ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. ... (Nicholas Sparks)

And you're Emma Frost -- The Hellfire Club's White Queen. I understand you call yourself something of a telepath. Well, "Your Majesty," let's see how good you really are. ... (Chris Claremont)

The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected ... (George Orwell)

Death is a kind of guilt in itself. We're all alive in this world together, and we're also all mortal, but when one person pulls his thread through to the ... (Tiffany Baker)

I journaled: "Why do I feel like crap after being offered a book deal by one of the best publishers on the planet?" The answer that I came up with ... (Kate Northrup)

The following is a fictionalized and utterly false account of the events that most definitely did not happen on June 9-10, 1967. And yet, while all the characters in this ... (Montague Kobbe)

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have ... (Julian Bond)

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and ... (Mother Angelica)

Some times we need to work hard to get the JOB done ... (Sarvesh)

I wouldn't throw piss on that man if he were on fire. ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. ... (Theodore Roosevelt)