FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. So the belief that remembering is ... (Susan Sontag)

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain. ... (Francois Fillon)

Speaking to the Heart is a great encouragement to men who want to be better husbands and fathers. It is both a practical job description of fatherhood-showing how fathers build ... (James Stenson)

You can't trust the government to do anything right-except, of course, to conspire and cover up. Then it becomes diabolically efficient. The very people who are wildest for government conspiracies ... (Richard White)

She had a woman's swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She was an inch taller than me, two with ... (Jake Vander Ark)

She's just nervous, Paddy. Don't worry, hon," saidSharon , her lips pulled into a generous smile. Her eyes sparkled with warmth and sincerity. "I'm used to these neck nibblers." "No ... (Michele Bardsley)

The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists ... (Charles Fishman)

No one can eat just one French fry." "I bet supermodels eat just one French fry. ... (Janet Evanovich)

Luke and I stay nestled together until he nudges me. We'd better get going, he says gently. I guess I dozed off. I'm not letting you fall asleep without a ... (Cat Patrick)

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and ... (Colin Hay)

To become truly beautiful, learn to see the beauty all around you. ... (Debasish Mridha)

Talk is cheap. Show me the code. ... (Linus Torvalds)

Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold, but it's value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold is cold and lifeless, it ... (Natalie)

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha! ... (Mark Hadlow)

It's all about the spirit. Every man, woman and child should be seen as a spirit first, before anything else. We are all spirits in the first instance. ... (Andrew Agbonlahor)

People who come along all the time and they ask, 'What's wrong with this?' In other words, they're always wondering how close to the edge they can getand still be ... (Tim Conway)

Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is ... (Jessica Cox)

Impatience is racing at misery full speed. ... (Richelle E. Goodrich)

Some people, he says, they hide themselves away from the eyes of the world. They hunker down and shiver. They find four walls high enough to put between them and ... (Alden Bell)

My dear loser, Glenn greeted Wertheimer, with his Canadian-American cold-bloodedness he always called him the loser, he called me quite dryly the philosopher, which didn't bother me. Wertheimer, the loser, ... (Thomas Bernhard)

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills. ... (Chelsea Handler)

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. ... (Anthony Bourdain)

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process ... (Arnold Bennett)

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potatoes, carrots, gravy, and chunks of beef. His companion had less stew in his hair, ... (David Weber)

BEANNACHT For Josie On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the ... (John O'Donohue)

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes. ... (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the same as an attack on ... (Jeaniene Frost)

I tried not to think of my one excursion to Whole Foods, over a year ago, where I found myself paralyzed by all the special food for special people, whose ... (Lorrie Moore)

Grandmother," Ruth admonished. "I would not have a man who could not at least understand me." "And it looks like you might have finally fond one, heaven be praised." Ruth ... (Debbie Viguie)