FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All ... (Hans Brick)

CHILDHOOD I That idol, black eyes and yellow mop, without parents or court, nobler than Mexican and Flemish fables; his domain, insolent azure and verdure, runs over beaches called by ... (Arthur Rimbaud)

What's the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as the War of the Grandmothers; that after 50 ... (Shalom Auslander)

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said. Humans don't like that. They view it as a sign of ingratitude. I never asked anyone to feed me. That doesn't seem ... (Patrick Jennings)

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it. ... (Naturi Naughton)

If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to cook him his fish fingers (because after all, ... (Scarlett Thomas)

A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy ... (Queen Latifah)

What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be ... (August Wilhelm von Schlegel)

Music is not a fucking soda. It is not a fucking insurance rate. It is not a fucking T-shirt. It is the only real religion that is worth devoting your ... (Corey Taylor)

I knew she'd leave me. i figure we might as well go somewhere memorable to fall apart ... (Felicia Luna Lemus)

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of ... (Janet Montgomery)

The Age of Technology has rusted. ... (Walter Tevis)

Little known fact: When you get really scared and too many scary things happen at once, you can leave your body. I don't know if it's your soul or your ... (Dinah Katt)

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of ... (Gore Vidal)

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of ... (Stephen Fry)

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care. ... (Julie Bishop)

I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame. ... (Laurie Graham)

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. ... (Susan Meissner)

Every time I am off the tennis tour, I go back home. ... (Tomas Berdych)

Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you." ... (Nicholas Breton)

We pass the fields of Perry and Madrone and where they make wine, and it's all there, all sweet the furrows of brown, with blossoms and one time we took ... (Jack Kerouac)

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are ... (David Chipperfield)

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks. ... (Pat Conroy)

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will ... (Leonid Andreyev)

The roots of the strongest tree grow deep. ... (Matshona Dhliwayo)

Education is soul crafting. ... (Cornel West)

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world ... then tomorrow would be invented every day. ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

They ask for water we give them sea they ask for bread we give them sea they ask for life we give them only the sea ... (M. NourbeSe Philip)

Aspen had shifted to fill a desperate place in my life. Not my boyfriend, not my friend, but my family. ... (Kiera Cass)

Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My rough peasant's body digs in you and makes the son leap from the ... (Pablo Neruda)