FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth ... (Edmund White)

Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn't get a lot of encouragement from friends, although ... (Nina Jean Slack)

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto. ... (Keanu Reeves)

Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. ... (Mark W. Boyer)

I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We ... (Ahmed Rashid)

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while ... (T.F. Hodge)

War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale. ... (Newton Lee)

We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger's back. But those left behind had a right to know more about the beast who'd chewed ... (Jackie French)

Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its ... (Herman Melville)

'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so ... (Karrine Steffans)

Where in the world would a star be without the love of the sky? ... (Munia Khan)

Rom. [To Juliet.] If I profane with my unworthiest hand97 This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this; My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch ... (William Shakespeare)

Listening in the spiritual life is much more than a psychological strategy to help others discover themselves. In the spiritual life the listener is not the ego, which would like ... (Henri J.M. Nouwen)

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. ... (Nastassja Kinski)

Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More ... (Peter Ackroyd)

In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil theorem. I said I found ... (Chen-Ning Yang)

When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more ... (Andrew Buchan)

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as ... (Barack Obama)

Kindness is my superpower. It is not my weakness. ... (PK Scott)

Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I ... (Howard Carter)

It may be added, that the same change took place in dogmatic teaching, as in the exposition of Scripture. This indeed was still more to be expected, for the issue ... (Thomas Aquinas)

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. ... (Tacitus)

Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success. ... (T. Harv Eker)

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where ... (Martin Yan)

Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its ... (L. Neil Smith)

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom ... (Stefan Heym)

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that ... (Ingrid Newkirk)

A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell. ... (Carolyn Byers Ruch)

Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. ... (R.v.m.)

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. ... (Vladimir Lenin)