FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When I was a kid, I learned the hard way how expensive the truth was. Sometimes it cost you people in your life. Sometimes it cost you things in your ... (Mariana Zapata)

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And ... (Derek Bok)

Unusual in the Roman period.2 In the eyes of many of that time, early Christianity was odd, bizarre, in some ways even dangerous. For one thing, it did not fit ... (Larry W. Hurtado)

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that ... (Shannon L. Alder)

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation ... (Karl Marx)

But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, ... (David Quammen)

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip ... (Colm Toibin)

Serpent-Breath was famous ... Wasp-Sting, short and lethal. ... (Bernard Cornwell)

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens. ... (Billy Corgan)

Where have you been?" I asked weakly. A few minutes ago I would have rather died than questioned him. Let him know I care. But I'm too sick to be ... (Mari Mancusi)

I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from a working-class background, what I knew of as ... (Deborah Smith)

Speak, breathe, prophesy, get behind a pulpit and preach, mark exam papers, run a company or a nonprofit, clean your kitchen, put paint on a canvas, organize, rabble-rouse, find transcendence ... (Sarah Bessey)

I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me ... (Martin Luther King Jr.)

She was famous, and she was insane. Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They ... (Dianne Sylvan)

None of us really cheer for glory, prizes, tourneys. None of us, maybe, know why we do it at all, except it is like a rampart against the routine and ... (Megan Abbott)

After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course, just because Jesus replaces the Old Testament doesn't ... (Stephen Colbert)

It is helpful to remember that the most strong-willed children tend to be the ones who identify the most strongly with their parents. So instead of viewing their seemingly constant ... (L.R. Knost)

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that ... (John Edwards)

All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were. ... (Chris Squire)

As she stared at the ceiling that first night her body softly falling back into itself, she thought of how we dream of journeying on spaceships to other universes, other ... (Toby Barlow)

There are words in my life that I wish I'd never said. I wish I'd never told my wife that I loved her, because then I had to line up ... (Helen Humphreys)

No one lives here for ever ! This Land belongs to the Lord ! So make most of the time u spend here ! You have no liability, but just ... (Sushil Kumar)

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are. ... (Pearl Zhu)

The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin - returning it to the sky where ... (Alyson Noel)

Still, he could feel a fine cord stretched between them, a thin luminous fiber that ran from his chest all the way across the continent and forked into theirs. Never ... (Julie Orringer)

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy. ... (Andy Andrews)

My aunt had given me these rosary beads that were glow-in-the-dark. So all of a sudden I look down and they're glowing, and I'm looking toward the door and thinking, ... (Susan Sarandon)

Holding back a cough and splutter I cover my mouth with my hand, so as not to lose any of the precious nectar I'm holding. Oh my! I intently watch ... (A.J. Walters)

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless ... (Raghu Rai)

Daniel Day-Lewis would play me as a baby. He can do anything. Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt are fighting out for me now. And Meryl Streep will play me after ... (Ricky Gervais)