FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren't all the way under the girl's control. ... (Melissa Marr)

We lose track of everything, and of everyone, even ourselves. The facts of my father's life are less known to me than those of the life of Hadrian. My own ... (Marguerite Yourcenar)

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast. ... (Christopher Monckton)

We tore each other's clothes off like they were on fire. She was gorgeous. Firm and strong and a shape like a dream. Skin like silk. She pulled me to ... (Lee Child)

Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An older brother is both authority and ... (Ron Currie Jr.)

Mai grins at Mycroft. 'You know that's slightly ridiculous, don't you?' He smiled. 'Why?' 'Because. . . because you're teenagers.' Mai's expression says it should be obvious. 'Mycroft, this isn't ... (Ellie Marney)

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own ... (Lyman Beecher)

What is love? I have asked this question countless times, and the best answer I can get is that it's a "feeling that we feel when we feel a feeling." ... (Cleveland McLeish)

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano. ... (Alfred Brendel)

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But ... (Salman Rushdie)

Look back. Look back at me. Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage. ... (Elizabeth Gaskell)

Needle&Thread: Kite ... how did everything change? My heart beats for you, my soul craves yours. During the Second Debt we shared everything. We were free. I hate this distance ... (Pepper Winters)

Life in Christ is like traveling on a metro link train, with a predetermined destination. You are not the driver, Jesus is, and God provided the route on this one ... (Rolly Lavapie)

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. ... (Tyra Banks)

Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier, more popular, more productive, ... (Mark Manson)

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one. ... (Charlie Kimball)

You follow your own path, I don't know how much money you will accumulate, how much stature you will achieve, or how many titles you will garner. But if you're ... (Robert S. Kaplan)

Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at ... (Andrew Jackson)

It was chilly weather. Through the window the rays of the sun touched my feet, and the slight warmth was very welcome. It was almost eight o'clock, and the early ... (Rabindranath Tagore)

We have to believe that forgiveness is still possible even if those we committed crimes against will not forgive us. It means what matters most is how we live now. ... (Heather Anastasiu)

I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening. ... (Ian Darke)

Neoclassical economics has effectively insulated itself from the great advances made in science and engineering over the last 40 years. This self-imposed isolation must come to an end. For while ... (Steve Keen)

Sweeping the dorm soon's it's empty, I'm after dust mice under his bed when I get a smell of something that makes me realize for the first time since I ... (Ken Kesey)

Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can be persuaded to hate millions ... (Benjamin Spock)

Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with ... (Paulo Coelho)

It'd be a mistake," Lee said. "I think maybe you have to make a few," Merrin said. "If you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you ... (Joe Hill)

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical ... (John Banville)

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing ... (John Katzenbach)

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower ... (John Banville)

I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the ... (Jeremy Luke)