FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own limitations in terms of what instruments ... (Mirah)

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department. ... (Erik Larson)

Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for ... (Douglas Clegg)

Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. t ... (John Green)

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part. ... (Stephen Hawking)

There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to ... (Jared Padalecki)

I've lived in New York long enough to understand why some people hate it here: the crowds, the noise, the traffic, the expense, the rents; the messed-up sidewalks and pothole-pocked ... (Bill Hayes)

You're scared," he said quietly. "Scared?" I scoffed. "Of what?" "Of anything real. And what we have is real. You love me and it terrifies you." "I don't love you," ... (Sophie Jordan)

The universe whispered it's him, but I sent you away ~ I tested our connection and left it to fate, Years have passed and others have come into our lives, ... (Nikki Rowe)

This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that ... (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Tell me about your day, your routine, and what you did at the drugstore when the dumb little girl charged you five cents instead of five dollars. Did you speak ... (A.M. Homes)

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of ... (Abraham Lincoln)

Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that. ... (Mario Andretti)

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before. ... (Catherine Deneuve)

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. ... (Charlotte Rampling)

Turn to page 394. ... (J.K. Rowling)

A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, ... (Laura Levine)

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can ... (John Updike)

Your stepfather? I'd like to meet him." Oh no ... why? "I'm not sure that's a good idea." Christian unlocks the door, his mouth in a grim line. "Are you ... (E.L. James)

I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food. ... (Mike Newell)

Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies the ... (Robert A. Heinlein)

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where ... (Sheryl Sandberg)

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. ... (Euripides)

Stone eyes are blind eyes. ... (George r r martin)

He didn't seem like somebody you'd want to invite to a party unless you'd already given up on it. ... (Jeff Strand)

Several of us were corrected by our fathers; and though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest. ... (Benjamin Franklin)

What is disquieting is that where the USSR and its policies are concerned one cannot expect intelligent criticism or even, in many cases, plain honesty from Liberal [ sic - ... (George Orwell)

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to ... (Alison Bechdel)

Much like great products, great content will only find the best people to love it if it's leveraged well. ... (Paul Shannon)

That is, contrary to the dominant thinking on this issue, the data show that the more regulated public school sector embraces more innovative and effective professional practices, while independent schools ... (Christopher A. Lubienski)