FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, ... (Neil Gaiman)

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties. ... (Gary Locke)

You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly ... (Tonya Hurley)

The principle of avoiding conflict and never opposing an aggressor's strength head-on is the essence of aikido. We apply the same principle to problems that arise in life. The skilled ... (Joe Hyams)

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you. ... (Sam Walton)

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore ... (Colm Toibin)

While we were being bombed in Dresden sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were a ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. ... (Charles Edison)

No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, ... (Adam Smith)

We are capable of performing the task. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. ... (Robin Williams)

The only major thing I'd done all day was lay out a plan of action to find the key that Pete Fortney used to let himself into my home. I'd ... (Dolores Wilson)

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. ... (Martha Plimpton)

Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I have indicated, he thinks that people more or ... (John Rawls)

I love being a fashion designer. ... (Roberto Cavalli)

The allowance vanished absolutely; and in its place there came into being an arrangement. By this, his lordship was to have whatever money he wished, but he must ask for ... (P.G. Wodehouse)

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of ... (Desmond Tutu)

For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work. ... (Daniel Alarcon)

As masculine self-consciousness grows stronger, the stage of matriarchy is followed by that of division. Symptomatic of this transition period is the twin-brother motif in mythology, which expresses the mutual ... (Erich Neumann)

On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to pick bluebells. On Thursday they fished at the ... (Lisa Kleypas)

A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is ... (Barbara Demick)

Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth. ... (Shannon L. Alder)

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually ... (Felix Adler)

The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic if you're not for reducing the corporate income ... (Jim Jordan)

She doesn't flip your switch. I get it." "Never say switch to a Dom, Leah. In either context. I don't do one and I'm liable to use the other. ... (Tymber Dalton)

What makes it worth it though, is I love drawing. I LOVE IT. I love making comics. I love starting a new page and buying new paper, ink and brushes. ... (Becky Cloonan)

Their own souls rose and cried Alarum when they heard the sudden wail Of stricken freedom and along the gale Saw her eternal banner quivering wide. ... (John Le Gay Brereton)

The cold knot of rage in my chest started beating like a clock, a slow, steady countdown to Alexis James's death. Tick-fucking-tock. ... (Jennifer Estep)

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is ... (C.S. Lewis)

Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, "Either I am much deceived, or by your cheerful and pleasant ... (Michel de Montaigne)