FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. ... (Joyce Maynard)

The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can take control. You can do something to ... (Judith Warner)

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism ... (Rosa DeLauro)

At the end of the day, you should try to remember that it's not about the number of followers you have or the numbers of likes, comments, and shares your ... (Malak El Halabi)

Failing is great! Isn't it? I mean, it sets you free and, after all, failures are the pillars of success. So, you must fail! ... (Abhishek Ratna)

When your stomach turns somersaults every time you see your love interest, when you can go without eating for half a day because you can't think of anything else, and ... (Erik Tomblin)

All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like ... (Elizabeth Enright)

More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you ... (Gary Bauer)

If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter ... (Karen Joy Fowler)

Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord's authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and ... (David A. Bednar)

I'd once had a long-term relationship with a Five Point Five that got nowhere near living together. This was because I was a Two Point Five, he was a Five ... (Kristen Ashley)

He started to engage the gears, and then suddenly paused with a feeling of uneasiness. He did not regret leaving his own car, but still something worried him. In a ... (George R. Stewart)

I pretty much ran from the front of the bookstore to the new release section and that was all. ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know ... (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

As it turned out, almost every notion I had on my 13th birthday about my future turned out to be a total waste of my time. When I thought of ... (Caitlin Moran)

I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, ... (Rupert Brooke)

What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over? ... (Ivan Doig)

Is that what happened to Mercier?" "No - not quite. In so far as I understood Sukhoi's work, it appeared that the zero-mass state would be very difficult to realise ... (Alastair Reynolds)

Alas! can we think that the reformation is wrought, when we cast out a few ceremonies, and changed some vestures, and gestures, and forms! Oh no, sirs'! it is the ... (Richard Baxter)

BUDGE (muffled) No,no,nono. NURSE BAKER I understand what you're trying to say. BUDGE A hideous scream. NURSE BAKER Exactly. BUDGE A cry of desperation. NURSE BAKER Perfect. BUDGE A strangled ... (Don DeLillo)

Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm is leaning over by the wall. ... (Jeanette Winterson)

Some people talk about polyamory as the next logical step for our species. A sexual free-for-all without exclusive relationships, similar to the free love hippie movement of the 60s, where ... (Oliver Markus)

A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world ... (Keahu Kahuanui)

She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, and said nothing about it, and prayed for the power to forgive, and did ... (Margaret Atwood)

It's not just that there are two sides to every dispute. It's that each side sincerely believes its version of the story, namely that it is an innocent and long-suffering ... (Steven Pinker)

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the ... (Socrates)

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing. ... (J.K. Rowling)

I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a ... (Ingrid Betancourt)

If someone were to have pressed a sheet of glass down over the top of Alliance, Nebraska, in winter, it would have resembled an ant farm. Everything was a tunnel ... (Ann Patchett)

I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision. ... (John Wooden)