FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. You think real men don't get scared? We do, all the ... (Ann Aguirre)

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? ... (James Joyce)

The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else. ... (Kevin Systrom)

COMPASSION ALERT: As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by lighting up a smile on someone's face ... (Kamil Ali)

Why waste a sentence saying nothing? ... (Seth Godin)

When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But ... (Jon Krakauer)

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident. ... (Merv Griffin)

The moment I walk into a bookstore, I remember what I love about them. They are an oasis of intellectual calm. Perhaps it's the potential of all the ideas hidden ... (Michael Lopp)

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You ... (Marvin Hamlisch)

I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired ... (Marcus Luttrell)

Goethe's Faust risks all if he should cry to the moment, the 'augenblick', "Verweile doch!" "Last forever!" Who hasn't prayed that prayer? But the 'augenblick' isn't going to 'verweile'. You ... (Annie Dillard)

Health is not a diet plan, but a lifestyle. Understand your body, your strengths, and your limits and use this knowledge to make a change. Stop dieting, start living. ... (Manuel Villacorta)

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. ... (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

And this is because people are riddled by Doubt. It is the engine that drives them through their lives. It is the elastic band in the little model aeroplane of ... (Terry Pratchett)

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls. ... (David Levithan)

Then the molecules bestowed upon the seeker "the curse of progress". Progress was something by which man could make his society progressively more iniquitous and unjust and thereby feel more ... (Biju Vasudevan)

All great gifts come with a great price, Bel murmured. ... (C.L. Wilson)

But that could not have been the main cause of the carnage, because in subsequent centuries the technology kept getting deadlier while the death toll came back to earth. Luard ... (Steven Pinker)

The tree (of Islam) is of artificial planting. Instead of containing within itself the germ of growth and adaptation to the various requirements of time and clime and circumstance, expanding ... (William Muir)

While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life. ... (Sunday Adelaja)

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it. ... (Sean Lennon)

Deke: 'You know what I'm wonderin'?' Malachi: 'No, and to tell the truth, I don't care' Deke: 'I'm wonderin' how you've managed to live to the ripe old age of ... (Lynn Turner)

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew in the incontestable way that children know things that God was an author who'd imagined me, which ... (Martha Cooley)

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks ... (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a ... (Kij Johnson)

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the ... (David A. Bednar)

One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things ... (John Scalzi)

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing ... (Michael Chabon)

No matter what happens in your life ... or where its roads lead you, Always try to keep positive ... It'll will get you everywhere! ... (Timothy Pina)

Call attention of course to the breasts. Some of these women have been within inches of getting Ed to put his head down on their chests, right there in Sally's ... (Margaret Atwood)