FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which ... (Noel Streatfeild)

The trouble is, when you gift a girl with flowers your choice can be construed so many different ways. A man might give you a rose because he feels you ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything. ... (Rick Riordan)

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. ... (Christopher Meloni)

On the first day of fifth grade, Liz was sitting on the swing beside Liam's at recess. Falling and flying, her hair fanned out behind her and her eyes were ... (Amy Zhang)

All children in adventure books have to be orphans. ... (Charlie Higson)

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. ... (Crazy Horse)

Barabbas ("Son of the Father") is a kind of Messianic figure. Two interpretations of Messianic hope are juxtaposed here in the offer of the Passover amnesty. In terms of Roman ... (Pope Benedict XVI)

It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits. ... (KT Tunstall)

I have a secret. A big, fat, hairy secret. And I'm not talking minor-league stuff, like I once let Joseph Applebaum feel me up behind the seventh-grade stairwell or I ... (Karen MacInerney)

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane? ... (Greg Fitzsimmons)

Will you stop calling it 'stalking'? That's such a harsh term. I prefer 'anonymous following. ... (Tara Sivec)

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to ... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Norm Zuckerman was approaching seventy and as CEO of Zoom, a megasize sports manufacturing conglomerate, he had more money than Trump. He looked, however, like a beatnik trapped in a ... (Harlan Coben)

Going through my divorce has changed who I am in my understanding of what's good and bad in relationships. ... (Kevin Hart)

Soldier," he said. "A lousy one, but I was a soldier in the Army." He studied the menu then laid it to his side. "When the government fell and they ... (Jarrett Rush)

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in ... (Carolyn Hax)

Warren returns from his room and sits back down at the table. "I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn't finished eating yet. ... (Colleen Hoover)

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us ... (Bertrand Russell)

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane ... (Rachel Caine)

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious. ... (PZ Myers)

If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if ... (Harrison Ford)

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era ... (Graham Hancock)

When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile. ... (Sam Taylor-Johnson)

It is a terrible smudge on grace and unconditional love to think that God simply winks and smiles at our poor choices; that God must rubber stamp everything we do ... (Michael M. Rose)

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system. ... (Barack Obama)

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. ... (Miguel de Cervantes)

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star. ... (Jay Leno)

My main goal is to really make people think, and laugh while they do so. ... (Stacey Dash)

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as ... (Charles Colson)