FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And ... (Mark Twain)

Give yourself some credit," he went on, "not a lot of silkies would have made it this far." "I stopped you from killing Chorda," (...) "Hey, come one," Rafe said. ... (Kat Falls)

Cowards hide [ ... ] but warriors lie and wait [ ... ] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose. ... (Neal Shusterman)

A man can love too.' 'No; -- hardly. He can admire, and he can like, and he can fondle and be fond. He can admire and approve, and perhaps worship. ... (Anthony Trollope)

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or ... (Diana Vreeland)

But gifts can be victories, can't they. It's what you said. The garden could have been your gift, a dowry of talent, skill, and vision. I know it's too late ... (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Mortals simply aren't what they used to be," he said. "A thousand years ago, you would have bartered your immortal soul for a crust of stale bread. Now I can't ... (Rachel Caine)

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard ... ... (Vinny Guadagnino)

I am a very good cook." When she did cook. "Good. I like to eat." He lightly bit her palm. The too-much-air feeling in Lucy's stomach pressed upward into her ... (Rachel Gibson)

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently ... (Adam Lambert)

I'm going to make you forget every man you ever knew I'm going to heal your heart from every broken I love you I'm going to take on your old ... (Allie Juliette Mousseau)

Now there is a spiritual selfishness which even poisons the good act of giving to another. Spiritual goods are greater than the material, and it is possible for me to ... (Thomas Merton)

We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of ... (Wynton Marsalis)

Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman ... (Annie Dillard)

He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and he no longer understands the feelings he felt ... (Isaac Marion)

Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some ... (Dennis Kucinich)

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. ... (Douglas Coupland)

Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep ... (Ron Rozelle)

We are the people birthed from this land. For the first time I can seem something I've not fully understood before, not until now as these pale creatures from somewhere ... (Joseph Boyden)

If I do not know the purpose for which human life was designed, I have no basis for saying that any kind of human life-style is good or bad. ... (Lesslie Newbigin)

I had started climbing trees about three years earlier, or rather, re-started; for I had been at a school that had a wood for its playground. We had climbed and ... (Robert Macfarlane)

The best stories are never completely realistic and never entirely made-up. ... (Fredrik Backman)

The colonel dwelt in a vortex of specialists who were still specializing in trying to determine what was troubling him. They hurled lights in his eyes to see if he ... (Joseph Heller)

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth. ... (Marilynne Robinson)

If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we're all OK And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful And useless in times like these ... (Jewel)

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live. ... (Eckhart Tolle)

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle. ... (Lucian Freud)

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me. ... (Jodi Picoult)

She looked like she was going to a party where the theme was Most Sparkly Evening Gown, or maybe Quickest Way to Blind Someone. ... (Julie Kagawa)

While chasing the moon that was about to set, she missed the sunrise. ... (Akshay Vasu)