FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any ... (Ian Fleming)

Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It's a rule from the heartbreak version of 'rock, paper, scissors. ... (Julie Klausner)

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. ... (Gelett Burgess)

In the interests of friendship, I hope you'll forgive me what I'm about to do." "Forgive you wha - " My sentence was cut off as he clamped his mouth ... (Seanan McGuire)

One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others. ... (Stormie O'martian)

Girlfriends and boyfriends come and go. The good times had with them are easily forgotten. But best friends stay in your heart forever. ... (Jennifer Jabaley)

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. ... (Edgar Magnin)

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it. ... (John Sandford)

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership. ... (Lee Iacocca)

Happiness increases and decreases depending on the level of power one has. When you have more power, more control on your life, you feel more happy and self-confident, as your ... (Bangambiki Habyarimana)

Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided ... (Armistead Maupin)

Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your ... (Lloyd Alexander)

Daniel is asleep. A care assistant, a different one today is swishingaroundthe room with a mop that smells of pine cleaner. Elisabeth wonders what's doing to happen to all the ... (Ali Smith)

The look he gave me ... My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, ... (Justina Chen)

I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully ... (Aasif Mandvi)

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body? ... (Thomas Hobbes)

I see ghosts like you see a normal person. Looking regular, tangible as ever and even more alive than most of the people you'll see walking around the streets. ... (Tia Artemis)

Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical ... (Henri Frederic Amiel)

I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had. ... (Tamara Mellon)

Aliens bled red, just like everybody else. ... (Kameron Hurley)

While they were floundering / I was pondering / 'No more wandering through the dark tunnels of grim determination / For no; it is time to grow in a thousand ... (Nathan Coppedge)

A school library is like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. True, the superhero is ... (Tom Angleberger)

Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have ... (Marianne Williamson)

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance. ... (Thomas More)

He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory. ... (John Steinbeck)

THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a ... (John Bradshaw)

We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Theatre is about the collective imagination ... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be ... (Simon McBurney)

I watch 'House of Cards,' which was great. I don't watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it. ... (Joanne Kelly)

Any object that lost its nanotags automatically became government property, so hard-working people and those who had lived for generations in ancestral homes here would see their properties expropriated. The ... (Karl Schroeder)