FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character's life into chapters. It's intriguing, because you can't do this ... (Colleen Hoover)

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the ... (Joss Whedon)

In my heart I like to remain an amateur, in the sense of being in love with what I'm doing, forever astonished again at the endless possibilities of seeing and ... (Inge Morath)

Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it, to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the ... (Henry David Thoreau)

As Sondheim said, Nice is different than good. Do you need to do whatever you're told to be a nice person? Maybe. Do you need to do whatever you're told ... (Anna Kendrick)

I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher ... (John Lennox)

This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny ... (Nick Kroll)

The strongest men are the most alone. ... (Henrik Ibsen)

There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry is the minimum-wage business model. I say phooey ... (Thomas Perez)

At some second transcendent moment in evolution, Edelman proposed, the development of "higher-order consciousness" was made possible in humans (and perhaps a few other species including apes and dolphins) by ... (Oliver Sacks)

The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. ... (Gregory David Roberts)

My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer. ... (Brian Krzanich)

Like anyone else, I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is ... (Dalai Lama XIV)

At first I was like, No way am I saying that, but when you hang out with people who are always being supergrateful and appreciating things and saying thank you, ... (Ruth Ozeki)

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film ... (John Carney)

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth ... (Barbara La Marr)

Listen! I will be honest with you, I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes, These are the days that must happen to you: You ... (Walt Whitman)

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously ... (Sylvia Ann Hewlett)

I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to ... (Omar Sharif)

No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart! ... (Yogaswami)

A city is half beast and half machine, with arteries of fresh water and veins of foul, nerves of telephone and electrical cables, sewer lines for bowels, pipes full of ... (Dean Koontz)

It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation. ... (James H. Cone)

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender ... (Sarah Rees Brennan)

Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the ... (Charles Lever)

Kent. Who's there? Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. ... (William Shakespeare)

Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do but the life of spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself ... (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. ... (Jorge Luis Borges)

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! ... (T. S. Eliot)

That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable. ... (Jim Himes)