FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth. ... (Therese of Lisieux)

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone. ... (Sarah Palin)

Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of ... (Paul Davies)

Birds-eye view Awake the stars 'cause they're all around you Wide eyes will always brighten the blue Chase your dreams And remember me, sweet bravery 'Cause after all those wings ... (Owl City)

When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials. ... (Charles Kennedy)

He offers a sheepish grin. "Remember that girl I was dating last year? Sheena? Well, she texted me a picture of her tits. Said I had to return the favor." ... (Elle Kennedy)

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will ... (Richard Branson)

As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover ... (David Blaine)

By making no demands (for example, "You must give up your career"), by seeming not to interfere in crucial decisions (should she abort the child she had conceived by him ... (Carl Rollyson)

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first ... (Molly Ringwald)

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see ... (Avi Arad)

[English] fails me utterly when I attempt to describe what I love about Greek, that language innocent of all quirks and cranks; a language obsessed with action, and with the ... (Donna Tartt)

We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look ... (Paul Haggis)

Come on,"he said, gesturing toward the exit. "let's take a walk." "Where?" "It doesn't matter. We just need you calmed down or you'll be in no shape to fight." "Yeah? ... (Richelle Mead)

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into ... (Leonhard Euler)

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost ... (Blaise Pascal)

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life. ... (Judd Nelson)

I don't want to come off like a girl scout and 'Isn't she sweet?' but the honest-to-God truth is I had seven years of a great show. It put me ... (Veronica Hamel)

I don't have a gym membership. I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dressing room before the show. I've done plank for ... (Laura Osnes)

We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even ... (Denzel Washington)

So ended the formative period in [his] life, the single year that set in motion all the clockwork of his future identity. Thinking back on it, I wonder if it ... (Ian Caldwell)

Bitterness would do you good. All that smiling and pretending of yours would give me hives. ... (Kristin Hannah)

You can't use an old map to see a new land. ... (Gary Hamel)

As I was about to open the street door, Sally laid her hand on my shoulder, and said, "Linda, is you gwine all ... (Harriet Jacobs)

Southern food has been riding a long wave of popularity that has elevated cooking in Southern cities. But it has also led to a formulaic culinary canon laden with house-cured ... (Anonymous)

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor. ... (Laurence Fox)

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed ... (Ahmed Ben Bella)

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics. ... (Jacob Lusk)

I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I could manufacture excruciating embarrassment in the ... (Jonathan Franzen)

I'm not in a certain type of genre, and I can't be categorized or pigeonholed. That leaves a wide range of what I can do for myself, for other people, ... (Shamir)