FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Naturally, people - especially in America - live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ... (Ivan Eland)

I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some ... (Jerry Rice)

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But ... (Paulo Coelho)

It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we ... (Richelle E. Goodrich)

I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I ... (B. D. Wong)

There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see. ... (Avi)

Yeah, it's me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. 'Cause right now, I'm pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick) ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

When no one was going to pay for the public schools anymore and they were all like filled with guns and drugs and English teachers who were really pimps and ... (M T Anderson)

Picasso wasn't in conflict, you can bet your bottom dollar on that. He said, Scram! I need to work, and his mistresses and their spawn ran for the hills. Dickens ... (Kate Mulgrew)

I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California ... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did ... (Carlos Bulosan)

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. ... (Ayn Rand)

One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small. ... (Marion Nestle)

Venkat was silent for a moment. "Jack, I'm going to buy your whole team autographed Star Trek memorabilia." "I prefer Star Wars," he said, turning to leave. "The original trilogy ... (Andy Weir)

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome ... (Zora Neale Hurston)

Have you seen that show on CBS called 'The Amazing Race'? Is that show about white people? ... (Zach Galifianakis)

Because we chose to tell the truth (The cool of age, the rage of youth) And stand against the lies of old (The whispers soft, the tales untold) We find ... (Mira Grant)

Then along came that tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi plant and, well, no one is building nuclear power plants in Japan now, are they? ... (Patricia Briggs)

Half our family does seem to owe you their lives, now I stop and think about it," Mr. Weasley said in a constricted voice. "Well, all I can say is ... (J.K. Rowling)

Do not little strokes - fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings - wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? ... (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front ... (Robert Kiyosaki)

These suckling-pigs were really delicious, and Pencroft was devouring his share with great gusto, when all at once a cry and an oath escaped him. "What's the matter?" asked Cyrus ... (Jules Verne)

When it got to be time to design the week - a period of time, unlike the day, month, and year, with no intrinsic astronomical significance - it was assigned ... (Carl Sagan)

It's a good thing we don't know when we start out that when we arrive we haven't gone anyplace." "What's wrong with success?" Kelly asked, exasperated. "You just walked out ... (Dean Jones)

In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I ... (Joris-Karl Huysmans)

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe. ... (Stefan Zweig)

For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; ... (Edmund Spenser)

She was going to have to train herself not to stare at him quite as often as she was used to. That would be no easy task. ... (Marissa Meyer)

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its ... (Michel Patini)

Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti]. ... (Dada Bhagwan)

Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do. ... (Kelsea Ballerini)