FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

As I look back on my fondness for the outdoors, and specifically the elements in nature that I find visually stimulating, I am surprised at how often the theme of ... (Cory Trepanier)

And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far ... (Ivo Andric)

I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been ... (Billy Bob Thornton)

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted ... (Markus Zusak)

Vee: And I'm not going to let you sit at home all afternoon with your sour face on. Nora: I don't have a sour face. Vee: Yes, you do. And ... (Becca Fitzpatrick)

Are you disappointed with society? If you are, I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself. ... (Billy Graham)

I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens. ... (Stephen Colbert)

To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also ... (Alfred Gough)

I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put ... (Dick Vitale)

But [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone's orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing. ... (Robert Graves)

President John F. Kennedy said it best, "ask not what your country can do for you -ask what you can do for your country" I may not be called to ... (Augusta DeJuan Hathaway)

I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way. ... (Mallory Ortberg)

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty. ... (Tennessee Williams)

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the ... (Roman Payne)

7. But what kind of love is it, really? Don't fool yourself and call it sublimity. Admit that you have stood in front of a little pile of powdered ultramarine ... (Maggie Nelson)

When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And ... (Madonna Ciccone)

The cream of a generation was lost in the mud of Flanders. Etonians went over the top with the Illiad in their knapsacks and Athens in their hearts. To protest ... (William Donaldson)

YOU WEREN'T born choking on no silver spoon, you know how it goes when you go looking for a job and you need one: You wait in the first indifferent ... (Daniel Woodrell)

God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that ... (Kirk Cameron)

The deadline is at midnight in America; dawn, 5 A.M., in England, and 8:00 A.M., early morning, in Iraq. The Americans tie yellow ribbons around oak trees, hoping for their ... (Betool Khedairi)

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature. ... (Margaret Mead)

With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ... (Ezra Taft Benson)

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it ... (Alan W. Watts)

I expected to be happy, but let me tell you something. Anticipating happiness and being happy are two entirely different things. I told myself that all I wanted to do ... (Matthew J. Hefti)

Promises are just chains," she rasps. "Both are meant for breaking. ... (Pierce Brown)

Nobody has to be ashamed of being a Hoosier. ... (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but ... (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

On un-being in an imaginary real 'lationship: When you relive, the past, unkind, you cannot see - you're simply blind. Emotions - ages take to settle, and love is fiercer ... (Will Advise)

I'm a nature lover, I want at any given time to be able to bring lots of plants into my house, have lots of light flooding in, have lots of ... (Sebastian Clovis)

Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his ... (Eugene H. Peterson)