FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by ... (Louis L'Amour)

Once he had watched Liz making a silk braid. One end was pinned to the wall and on each finger of her raised hands she was spinning loops of thread, ... (Hilary Mantel)

For love is greater than any wind of words. And man, leaning at his window under the stars, is once again responsible for the bread of the day to come, ... (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although ... (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi)

My mother's a pretty warm, open person. ... (Adepero Oduye)

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ... (Oscar Wilde)

But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she's not beautiful. There's a certain set to the jaw and arch to the ... (Terry Pratchett)

A great mind must be androgynous. ... (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place of Positive Energy - then ... (Esther Hicks)

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on. ... (Hank Williams Jr.)

His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, "You spend time with your son?" "Much as I can," he'd answered, but his father had caught the lie in his eyes. ... (Blake Crouch)

Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories, so many bad ... (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Radicals often suspect beauty of corruption. Uptight fuckers though they sometimes are, they're right in one thing: art alone cannot change the world. Pens can't take on swords, let alone ... (Molly Crabapple)

Admit it," He insists. "I was right." "No." I sniff. "You were wrong." sniff. "I'm just crying"-sniff- "cause i'm so happy." My tear take that lie as their cue and ... (Tera Lynn Childs)

There isn't a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger. ... (Patricia Briggs)

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He ... (Richard Armour)

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives. ... (Steven Erikson)

My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy ... (Arthur Conan Doyle)

I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a ... (Neil Marshall)

Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like ... (Adriana Trigiani)

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street ... (Ben E. King)

He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the ... (Norman Lock)

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs. ... (Albert Einstein)

Thus it should appear to everyone that the best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no ... (Geoffroi De Charny)

It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and deep digging to emphasise what we ... (George Canty)

What doesn't kill me can only make me stronger ... (Kid Ink)

She smiled, nodded, and kept walking. She waved her badge at the proximity sensor, stepped into the revolving door, and entered the cavernous atrium. Right in the center, surrounded by ... (Joseph Finder)

The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the ... (Emmanuel Lubezki)

And all I could see would be stars. And stars are the places where the molecules that life is made of were constructed billions of years ago. For example, all ... (Mark Haddon)

My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne. ... (Future)