FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for ... (Douglas Clegg)

I think the truth is that we are in love with the fantasy of being that one person who could inspire, arouse, or affect someone who is so untouchable to ... (Christine Zolendz)

Mick required far less hand-holding than Michael. Signing the Stones, though, had required a full frontal assault worthy of General Patton, one of my heroes. The final battle exploded at ... (Walter Yetnikoff)

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can ... (William Sloane Coffin Jr.)

My computer made a funny sound the other day. Of course, I've never heard it get thrown out a window before. ... (Various)

When I introduced you to Mary Ann, I wanted to call you my girlfriend, Elli," he looked up at her to see her eyes were wide, "I've never had a ... (Toni Aleo)

And for the first time since I woke in the alley--I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to see Miya again, and Matthew and Ashlee and ... (Dannielle Wicks)

We learned the shocking truth that "home" isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can "feel" at home, which means "free" to us. ... (Maria Augusta von Trapp)

Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way of turning each bead of a Black man's sweat into gold ... (Orson Scott Card)

Try that yourself sometime: Take something (or someone) you love, and -in your imagination- say goodbye forever right now. Grieve for a moment. Then feel the explosion of happiness that ... (Teller)

Question: how can one manage not to lose time? Answer: experience it at its full length. Means: spend days in the dentist's waiting room on an uncomfortable chair; live on ... (Albert Camus)

Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds of lifetimes. We may have no ... (Paul Fleischman)

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others. ... (Mary Parker Follett)

Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in ... (William Shakespeare)

I don't think my father's issue was with my mother in particular. He just didn't like women. He thought they were stupid, inconsequential, irritating. That dumb bitch. It was his ... (Gillian Flynn)

The New Coach. Did she look at us that first week and see past the glossed hair and shiny legs, our glittered brow bones and girl bravado? See past all ... (Megan Abbott)

The ignorant mass looks upon the man who makes a violent protest against our social and economic iniquities as upon a wild beast, a cruel, heartless monster, whose joy it ... (Emma Goldman)

Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was ... (Martin Amis)

You can't push me away, mio cuore. You can't! ... (Olga Goa)

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was ... (Kristin Davis)

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight - not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable. ... (Jim Butcher)

The evening air holds the bittersweet tang of what might have been, ... (Ally Condie)

It was us they were talking about, with the objectivity of businessmen completing a routine transaction. In Barrett there wasn't even the hint of remorse or conscience. Some folks, they ... (Stephen Marlowe)

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve. ... (Norman Mailer)

It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it was their fault, not yours. ... (David Sedaris)

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice. ... (Steve Hagen)

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa ... (Carson Daly)

I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not ... (Fran Lebowitz)

We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace ... (Chris Gardner)

Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over. ... (Charlotte Joko Beck)