FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again ... (Martin Scorsese)

If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you ... Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe ... (Swami Vivekananda)

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled. ... (Kenneth C. Frazier)

For as in nothing is a gentleman better to be discerned from a vulgar person, so in nothing is a gentle nation (such nations have been) better to be discerned ... (John Ruskin)

It is generally accepted that people enjoy surprises: hence the traditions associated with Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries. In my experience, most of the pleasure accrues to the giver. The victim ... (Graeme Simsion)

This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that works, that is just right for the likes ... (Sylvia Earle)

We stood in the alley where we shot basketballs through hollowed crates and cracked jokes on the boy whose mother wore him out with a beating in front of his ... (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero. ... (Joe Abercrombie)

I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing she says is "don't tell the butcher"! ... (Rodney Dangerfield)

A coward can be a hero, but a hero cannot be a coward. ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. ... (Alonzo King)

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there. ... (Augusten Burroughs)

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984. ... (Thurgood Marshall)

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)

Lots of old guys wore beige trench coats and those flat caps that made them look like boys who sold newspapers a hundred years ago. ... (A.J. Cattapan)

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper. ... (John Lothrop Motley)

When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the ... (Vincent Canby)

Improvising, I participated in the discussion, and questioned another woman in the group. I asked her how old she was and she answered, "Thirty." I replied, "No, you are not ... (Viktor E. Frankl)

How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking "The Dodge Rebellion"? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast ... (David Foster Wallace)

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool. ... (Yair Lapid)

I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things ... (Ann Bancroft)

Deep in the heart of the hot, wet African rainforest, there lives a tribe of peacemakers who share a multiplicity of pleasures and make a very special kind of love. ... (Susan Block)

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole. ... (Childe Hassam)

You can't solve today's new problems with yesterday's old processes ... (Rick Otton)

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the ... (Edmund White)

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it ... (Orson Scott Card)

MAR13.35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: ... (Anonymous)

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own. ... (Bernard Malamud)

Please don't bite baby, I got some bomb ass pussy from a white lady ... She let me hide my weed in her titties ... (Lil' Wayne)

Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch' is my most favorite thing I've ever done. I see how happy ... (Robyn Lively)