FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Daily walk promotes good health. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in ... (John Garfield)

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship ... (Seymour Papert)

When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through ... (Christopher Dines)

For those that don't know, a human is a real bipedal life form of midrange intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small, waterlogged planet in a very lonely ... (Matt Haig)

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. ... (Anita Brookner)

Raeanne Mirror, Mirror When I look into a mirror, it is her face I see. Her right is my left, double moles, dimple and all. My right is her left, ... (Ellen Hopkins)

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper. ... (John Lothrop Motley)

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. ... (Matthew Henry)

The scientific dictator of tomorrow will set up his whispering machines and subliminal projectors in schools and hospitals (children and the sick are highly suggestible), and in all public places ... (Aldous Huxley)

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between ... (Marilyn Van Derbur)

He thought he would light the fire when he got inside, and make himself some breakfast, just to pass away the time; but he did not seem able to handle ... (Jerome K. Jerome)

Your life is very different from mine. For one, you can transform into a wolf." "I can," she agreed. "And you live with a vampire and gargoyle. That's not the ... (Lisa Carlisle)

Fifty years after Brown, we should have learned that there is no magic in white classmates. The magic lies at the intersection of educational opportunity and attitude - the coming ... (William Raspberry)

Relax and renew your mind. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I ... (Ryan McPartlin)

Sometime it takes a Tree to save a forest. ... (S.J. Cameron)

An important documentary that sheds light on one of the most terrifying realities in the U.S. today - the commercial sexual exploitation of young girls. TRICKED is a comprehensive portrait ... (Rachel Lloyd)

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all. ... (Dominick Cruz)

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a ... (Geshe Kelsang Gyatso)

As the shabby section of the audience rose to its feet, waving its hats and food-wrappers, a rich, stale smell wafted through the auditorium. It had something of the fog ... (Graham Robb)

In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me ... (Elizabeth Wilson)

To enter into a partnership with one of the many thousands of kinds of fungi, a tree must be very open-literally-because the fungal threads grow into its soft root hairs. ... (Peter Wohlleben)

I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don't have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone ... (Rachel Corrie)

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece ... (George Carlin)

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn't help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to ... (Douglas Adams)

You will never finish your novels if you don't take it one word at a time ... (Terrence LeRoy Baker)

BAD PEOPLE A man told me once that all the bad people Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails You need; they are really claws, and we know Claws. ... (Robert Bly)

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure. ... (Dada Bhagwan)

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter. ... (Dan Fogelberg)