FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can ... (Michelle Hodkin)

Right time, right place, right moment. ... (Truth Devour)

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away. ... (Duncan Sheik)

-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy ... (William Golding)

Your actions are catalysts to another's actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed. ... (Stanley Victor Paskavich)

Well the Kop's exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of ... (Bill Shankly)

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, ... (Charles Dudley Warner)

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it. ... (Stephen King)

When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect, ... (Hayley DiMarco)

In a sec.......let's see if this will help. Once there was a bunny that was very sad cause his ears were long and floppy and he stepped on them all ... (Grasshopper)

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up. ... (Rachel Zucker)

The boys on the front had magazines with pinups, and they talked about how one day they would score women like that, but they're kids. They don't know what love ... (A.S. King)

I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ... (Philippa Gregory)

Pegi just recorded "I Don't Want to Talk About," written by Danny Whitten, the original Crazy Horse guitar player and singer who's all over Early Daze, an album of songs ... (Neil Young)

It had been in a Paris house, with many people around, and my dear friend Jules Darboux, wishing to do me a refined aesthetic favor, had touched my sleeve and ... (Vladimir Nabokov)

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life's blessings. ... (Gina Greenlee)

Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes on responding in thousands of ways. You give ... (Rajneesh)

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go ... (Sarah Dessen)

I spent months fighting the fact that she had a personality disorder, but everything changed when I started asking myself how I had to adapt to work with a boss ... (John Izzo)

Barrons Books and Baubles had been ransacked! Tables were overturned, books torn from shelves and strewn everywhere, baubles broken. Even my little TV behind the counter had been destroyed. "Barrons?" ... (Karen Marie Moning)

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in ... (Sara Sheridan)

The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not. ... (Glenn Greenwald)

Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought, and let divine sensation have its ... (Evelyn Underhill)

Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half. ... (Colum McCann)

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad ... (Greg Bear)

Emma, listen to me," he says, and stupidly, I press the phone tighter to my ear. "I need you to stall your mom. We're about two hours away from you. ... (Anna Banks)

It's not like we stop needing the comfort and help that a good story can bring when we graduate from high school. I am still looking for answers to questions ... (John Green)

It's a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, ... (Ann Patchett)

I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. ... (Susan E. Isaacs)

Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's ... (Henry Handel Richardson)