FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to ... (Eva LaRue)

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns ... ... (C.S. Lewis)

Too right things could be better, that's my whole point. My going to work for the badge will not change that, will it?" Joanna said, "And Pride? There is absolutely ... (Paul Howsley)

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression. ... (Thabo Mbeki)

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, ... (Amy Sedaris)

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

This is a part of post-college life that nobody ever warns you about. Your social life is no longer dropped into your lap by virtue of shared classes and extracurricular ... (Lauren Layne)

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular? ... (Michael Cunningham)

I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to ... (Jamie Campbell Bower)

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges. ... (Jeff Abbott)

Habit is the best thing for you if you're trying to write prose. ... (Alan Cheuse)

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. ... (John Berger)

Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still ... (Naomi Wolf)

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. ... (Nikos Kazantzakis)

You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key ... (Wayne Dyer)

Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected ... (Michael Bassey Johnson)

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are ... (Sanaya Roman)

Sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the pencils in a cup at circulation, gnawed on ... (Tracy K. Smith)

Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists. The tourists at Etosha conjure up a fantastic Africa after their nightly ... (Paul Theroux)

It's interesting to me; you do four, five or six of these Comic Cons or things like that across the country a year. Obviously, I get busted a lot of ... (Terry Kiser)

Sometimes at night when the moon is almost full and my hands go numb from writing, I cleanse myself of her poisoned love. I welcome the water, the inevitability of ... (A.P. Sweet)

Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called religious one. Not (C. S.) Lewis. The barrier so many of us find between ... (Walter Hooper)

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate. ... (Lauren Groff)

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat. ... (Evan Esar)

Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished? ... (Kenneth Waltz)

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life. ... (Zhuangzi)

No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes. ... (Rajneesh)

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat. ... (Jeanne Robertson)

The head of the sledgehammer was cold, icy cold, and it touched his forehead as gently as a kiss. 'Pock! There,' said Czernobog. 'Is done.' There was a smile on ... (Neil Gaiman)

Sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other. ... (Sharon Olds)