FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

And the earth itself still turning on its axis and revolving around that sun, the sun revolving around the luminous wheel of this galaxy, the countless unmeasured jewelled wheels of ... (Malcolm Lowry)

My father once told me that American democracy is a people's democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It ... (George Takei)

You're such a romantic. Just like your brother. Do you know what he bought for me for our last anniversary? A knife sharpener. ... (Kim Fielding)

You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off. ... (Joss Whedon)

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words ... (Joan Didion)

Memorable among the Saxon warriors were Hengist and his wife (? or horse), Horsa. Hengist made himself King in the South. Thus Hengist was the first English King and his ... (W.C. Sellar)

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with ... (Barbara Cartland)

The Road is not a record of fatherly fidelity; it is a testament to the abyss of a parent's greatest fears. The fear of leaving your child alone, of dying ... (Michael Chabon)

I have thought I am creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just ... (John Wesley)

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true. ... (Tori Amos)

Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. ... (Laurie Halse Anderson)

The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'. ... (The Notorious B.I.G.)

Will you not see?" she cried. "You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it? ... (Jane Gaskell)

What is needed is never to be had without price. ... (Janet Morris)

Celeste rejoined him. "How you ladies do love a bargain," he said. "You were listening!" "I left before you shared the secrets of your undergarments." Jack looked sheepish. "That didn't ... (Marguerite Kaye)

Christmas is a time when you get homesick-even when you're home. ... (Carol Nelson)

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong! ... (Spike Milligan)

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, ... (Lord Chesterfield)

I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. ... (Pierre Niney)

Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what ... (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. ... (William C. Bryant)

I must not look the hawk in the eye. I must not punish the hawk, though it bates, and beats, and my hand is raw with pecks and my face ... (Helen Macdonald)

Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can ... (Lauren Berlant)

You tell me another gang that's got a dental plan. ... (Michael Keaton)

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ... To the faith that you'll die alone ... (Kendrick Lamar)

In a field you're already familiar with - like your own job - think carefully about what characterizes good performance and try to come up with ways to measure that, ... (Anders Ericsson)

Which Cromwell was, as the chief engineer of Henry's Reformation. He crushed the Roman church, looted the monasteries and nationalized faith by subordinating clergy to king. That may flatter today's ... (Anonymous)

Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't ... (Keary Taylor)

Words accrue and lose meaning through a semantic mobility dependent on the community in which they thrive, and these meanings cannot be divorced from bodily sensation and emotion. Slang emerges ... (Siri Hustvedt)

You know I don't mind sloppy seconds. And knowing Pope Whatadick, he probably blesses is cum before he blows it ... (Tiffany Reisz)