FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Make excellent mistakes. Too many people spend their time avoiding mistakes. They're so concerned about being wrong, about messing up, that they never try anything which means they never do ... (Daniel H. Pink)

Diamonds are held under tons and tons of pressure, extremely high temperatures of fire and shuffled under shifting of tectonic plates, for a long, long time! Yet when they come ... (C. JoyBell C.)

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid. ... (C. JoyBell C.)

I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And ... (Peter Andre)

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly ... (John Knowles)

A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it ... (Courtney Giardina)

The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling ... (Diane Ackerman)

Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss? ... (Fennel Hudson)

No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I can remember when Christmas morning would ... (John Lanchester)

Roller coaster through the atmosphere I'm drowning in this starry serenade Where ecstasy becomes cavalier My imagination's taking me away. Reverie whispered in my ear I'm scared to death that ... (Owl City)

I have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling ... (Aaron Paul)

Tell me again about the girl whose hands have no color. Whose hands are completely white. This time make them damned, or untouched, or have her open a red umbrella ... (Rebecca Wadlinger)

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story. ... (Shawn Lukas)

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel. ... (Alexander McCall Smith)

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be ... (Benjamin Disraeli)

Hey," he replied. "You look beautiful today." I glanced down and laughed. Along with my limited wardrobe, I was also discovering that not doing laundry decreased my clothing options even ... (Richelle Mead)

Change comes, when every person is adequately benefited. We keep hearing about "change." Change will never come to all of society. Change can only come when the market system adequately ... (Ellen J. Barrier)

That which elevates the Christian to an essential superiority over the non-Christian is therefore not a higher level of morality as such. The decisive difference is to be found in ... (Leo Baeck)

It was, 'If you don't do 'The Show Goes On,' your album's not coming out.' I had nothing to do with that record - nothing. I was literally told how ... (Lupe Fiasco)

We live in a world in which it is impossible to anticipate most of the contingencies that will arise. Neither the political context, nor the inventions, nor the fashions, nor ... (Lee Smolin)

Maybe I am just an empty, futile person, he thought. But it was precisely because there was nothing inside of me that these people could find, even if for a ... (Haruki Murakami)

Okay, my man, in a minute you are gonna hear a bunch of shit that's gonna knock your socks off. So, two seconds to prepare, Ivey is my best friend, ... (Kristen Ashley)

So I have an Indian heart if I do something illegal?' No, you have an Indian heart if you understand the limitations of our resources and are willing to step ... (Anirban Bose)

Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone ... (Rick Warren)

Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, ... (Marc Ian Barasch)

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved. ... (Lewis Mumford)

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 ... (Spencer Bachus)

You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right. ... (Dan Webster)

See if he's alive. It was a messy job, and I'd have done it myself, but I trusted me more than Larry to keep the vampires away. He'd saved me ... (Laurell K. Hamilton)

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it. ... (D.H. Lawrence)