FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The Arabs from Zanzibar convinced them to become Muslim, then recruited them to capture our Chewa people and put us into bondage. They raided our villages, killed our men, then ... (William Kamkwamba)

Whole. I can't imagine anything more terrifying than losing Sophie. When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth ... (Jodi Picoult)

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way. ... (Meryl Streep)

I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, ... (Chris Christie)

Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse. ... (Gemma Malley)

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express ... (Edouard Vuillard)

Mr. Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is best-known as a speculator, philanthropist and political activist. He made a fortune by doing things such as betting against Britain's currency ... (Greg Ip)

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America. ... (Jan Schakowsky)

Show me your memories of the kiss." I close my eyes. The heat creeps up my cheeks, which is silly because the sword was there when the kiss happened and ... (Susan Ee)

Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael) Thanks, Barney. How's Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron) Great, if I could ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. ... (Dean Koontz)

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to ... (Daniel Nestor)

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. ... (Humphry Davy)

Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is ... (Lou Andreas-Salome)

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn ... (Al Pacino)

But I happen to think there's something seductive about the dark. ... (Lauren Hammond)

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its ... (Jeremy Rifkin)

By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age has grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel ... (William Shakespeare)

I'm stuck in the fucking chimney." She ... (J.R. Ward)

I don't question God. ... (Victoria Osteen)

Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years. When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of ... (Jeffery Deaver)

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it. ... (Dean Koontz)

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution. ... (Tracy Chevalier)

Be slow to correct and quick to commend. ... (John Wooden)

I bought cars for all six of my children ... (Pete Edochie)

Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes ... (Donna Tartt)

There are details about your life I really do not want to know about. You told me he taught you how to fight with weapons, but I guess I never ... (Mary Abshire)

Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet ... (George r r martin)

Then he smiled - a lovely sunbeam of a grin. ... (A.M. Jenkins)

Kate won't be troubled. I don't know any gentlemen, anyway.' 'Thank you,' said Lymond. ... (Dorothy Dunnett)