FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon ... (John Shelton Reed)

The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought ... (George Orwell)

I'm not a hero or a superstar. I'm an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids ... (Boman Irani)

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade ... I live in great density ... Shelter lures me. ... (Gaston Bachelard)

We gave away most of our belongings. Interestingly, the more we gave away, the better we felt. Happiness researchers call this a 'helper's high,' in which helping others through volunteering ... (Tammy Strobel)

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning ... (David Millar)

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos. ... (Romeo Santos)

Smiles are a funny thing and laughter is hilarious. I smile sometimes when I am delirious. ... (Casey Renee Kiser)

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in. ... (Greg Graffin)

The abnormally large female cut the sandwich into four pieces and gave one to each before taking one for herself. They all took a bite and she grinned at their ... (Shelly Laurenston)

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value. ... (Jason Calacanis)

Domestic airplanes are basically designed to keep people seated, settled, and sedated for the duration of flight. If they could, they would install catheters in the seats and strap the ... (Seanan McGuire)

I can't promise you anything beyond this, Shannon. Hell, maybe nothing will happen. My body isn't like it used to be. But I can make sure you're taken care of." ... (J.M. Madden)

Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable? ... (Augustine of Hippo)

None of that means my family's not spiritual. (Though what happened to Marvin has put me at odds with God these days.) To their credit, our parents have spent considerable ... (Susan Carol McCarthy)

When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, ... (Jane Addams)

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city ... (Reiko Aylesworth)

Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have created in The Guernsey Literary ... (Kris Radish)

He that will not set himself proudly at the top of all things, but will consider the immensity of this fabric, and the great variety that is to be found ... (John Locke)

After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward ... (Adam Savage)

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'. ... (Karl Marx)

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the ... (Sinclair Lewis)

I struggle to keep up with him because my wits have been thoroughly and royally scattered all over the floor and walls of elevator three in the Heathman Hotel. ... (E.L. James)

Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame To wand'ring mowers shows the way, That in the night have lost their aim, And after foolish fires do stray; Your courteous lights in vain ... (Andrew Marvell)

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself. ... (Chuck Berry)

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was ... (Walter Payton)

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What's ... (John Green)

Yet a period's character does affect individual character. Psychology, the study of what happens in our minds, is tightly interwoven with culture, the name we give to our beliefs, practices, ... (Joshua Wolf Shenk)

We were partners in sewing. And partners in luck-hunting: four-leaf clovers, sand-dollar birds, red sea glass, clouds shaped like hearts, the first daffodils of spring, ladybugs, ladies in oversized hats. ... (Jandy Nelson)

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model. ... (Rebecca MacKinnon)