FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the ... (Allen Iverson)

To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of upper-middle class life. ... (Susan T. Fiske)

Sleep comes its little while. Then I wake in the valley of midnight or three a.m. to the first fragrances of spring which is coming, all by itself, no matter ... (Mary Oliver)

Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. ... (John T. Scopes)

Given that you probably used to wear ... velvet bloomers, lace, high heels, and a ponytail, yeah - I guess you have changed a little," I said, and gave a ... (Elle Jasper)

In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting ... a murmur of glory and hexameters, ... (Jorge Luis Borges)

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. ... (Stephen King)

His [brother in law Jim Hampson] appointment to the Episcopal parish in Wenham, near Gordon College brought them in close touch with leading evangelical faculty members in their pews and ... (Thomas C. Oden)

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it ... ... (Penelope Gilliatt)

The death of another person is perhaps the only genuine supernatural event we ever experience. ... (Anne Rice)

Can it be out of discretion, and a reluctance to hurt, that they affect to be unaware of my existence? But this is a refinement of feeling which can hardly ... (Samuel Beckett)

The English language was a delight to them, so illogical and fertile and well-suited to their natural desire to confuse, obfuscate, and generally side-step clear meaning whenever possible. ... (John Varley)

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of ... (Georges Cuvier)

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little ... (Willie Geist)

You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France, ... (Donald Trump)

Oh shit. ET just phoned home. ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion ... (Theodore Roethke)

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert. ... (Frank Gehry)

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? ... (Lauren Bacall)

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was ... (Conor McPherson)

What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that ... (Wadah Khanfar)

Celebrate who you are and what you stand for. Give wings to your dreams and live your aspirations. You've got only one life- live it in the best way you ... (Roopleen)

The entertainment palled. Fatigue like gravitation pulled at limbs and eyelids. As they had come so they departed, first Abbzug, then the two women from San Diego. The ladies first. ... (Edward Abbey)

'I thought you were an atheist,' Sjurd commented to hide the clench of his gut. He couldn't be stuck here while his country burned. 'Nobody's an atheist in a storm,' ... (Amy Rae Durreson)

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a ... (Claire Scovell LaZebnik)

You called me 'Fluttershy.' As in the My Little Pony, 'Fluttershy?'" "Oh." He looked a little taken aback for a second. "Yeah." He sucked in his lips, pinched them between ... (Heather Killough-Walden)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. ... (Marianne Williamson)

Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity ... (Dalai Lama)

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far ... (Galileo Galilei)

Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence trick ever tried the damage ... (Vernon Coleman)