FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. ... (Roger Bacon)

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. ... (Anonymous)

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by ... (Noam Chomsky)

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental. ... (Terence McKenna)

Say something," he said. "What?" I mumbled, struggling to orient myself. "What?" "Can you hear me? What day is it? Who's the president?" "Yes, I don't know, and a horse's ... (Jordan Castillo Price)

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper. ... (Gerhard Richter)

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases. ... (T. Colin Campbell)

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. ... (Voltaire)

Hello' said a vague and dreamy voice from behind them. Harry looked up: Luna Lovegood had drifted over from the Ravenclaw table. Many people were staring at her and few ... (J.K. Rowling)

I was raised in the Marine Corps and I was taught as a boy that you feed your own men before you feed yourself. It was my belief then, and ... (Pat Conroy)

A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya the ... (George r r martin)

I don't believe we need a good conservative judge, and I don't believe we need a good liberal judge. I subscribe to the Justice Potter Stewart standard. He was a ... (John F. Kerry)

In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and ... (Urie Bronfenbrenner)

Did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god i'm ... (Dalton Trumbo)

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire. ... (Mose Allison)

Because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love. (in that case my friend Hubl would have pointe out to me, no one loves us ... (Milan Kundera)

You seem incredibly faraway to me, like someone on the other side of a lake. A dot so small that it isn't male or female or young or old; it ... (Miranda July)

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely. ... (Donna Lynn Hope)

From some Christians as far back as the twelfth century, certainly from farther back in so-called primitive cultures, and from some ecologists of our own time, we have the idea ... (Wendell Berry)

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere ... (Barry Goldwater)

You look more of less the same." She strode right past him. "And you still look like a jackass," she said sweetly. ... (Sarah J. Maas)

Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I think reading, and experiencing fiction through reading, is ... (Neil Gaiman)

She would never tell him and was ashamed to admit it, even to herself, but she'd fallen in love with him the instant she'd seen him. She'd been taken at ... (Lisa Marie Rice)

Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the ... (Alexander Graham Bell)

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane ... (Jamais Cascio)

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore. ... (Eric Alterman)

Light is the most important person in the picture. ... (Claude Monet)

In this dismissal of origins we see the new pragmatism. ... (Sherry Turkle)

Except... what Jesus said was: "I will build My church," not you. The verse is not a prediction, it is a proclamation of the Lord of the Earth, who never ... (Glenn Hefley)

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's. ... (Tom Piccirilli)