FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The thing about love is you always end up losing it. ... (Linda Lael Miller)

Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile? ... (Shawn Lukas)

I just want to do musicals. it's hard enough just to do musicals. No matter how hard I try, I think it's only getting harder. Even If I try harder, ... (Cheon Eunbi)

If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity. ... (Lois Mowday Rabey)

Falling in love is a kind of wonder. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. ... (K'naan)

Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid ... (William Faulkner)

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a ... (Jim Rash)

Her (Beverly Powers) face was round and sweet, but her eyes were another matter. Whatever sport she'd played, this woman had been a ferocious competitor. I was profoundly glad I ... (Charlaine Harris)

It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people. ... (Simon Bird)

According to Thomas, the city [of Bath] had once been a veritable hotbed of manifestations, with every sorcerer, bunyip, golem, goblin, pict, pixie, demon, thylacine, gorgon, moron, cult, scum, mummy, ... (Daniel O'Malley)

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and ... (Hunter S. Thompson)

I do not know who coined the statement "an idle mind is the devil's playground," but it is true. When camping in dangerous places, it is often recommended that you ... (Kris Vallotton)

I bet he also didn't mention that I stick pins into the eyes of everybody who annoys me. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the man ... (Sarah Rees Brennan)

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not. ... (Luke Treadaway)

You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost ... (David Levithan)

The non-hybrids/heirlooms I grew equaled or out-yielded the hybrids in general, with far superior flavors and variety. ... (Craig Lehoullier)

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. This is the famous study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University ... (Bill Bryson)

My brother told me to pick him a winner. So I dug up my nose, And pulled out a chicken dinner. ... (Drew Bialko)

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get ... (Tobias Wolff)

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying. ... (Woody Allen)

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown. ... (A.R. Ammons)

Work - once merely an annoying nuisance - has become an agonizing torture. ... (Helen Fielding)

His idiot face gets redder and his eyes bulge and his ears block. I'd say his mind stops functioning, but I lack the proof of any other state from which ... (Isaac Asimov)

When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is ... (Frederick Lenz)

Manhood is defined and decided by the ability to nurture and to protect, by the capability to provide and to sustain. ... (C. JoyBell C.)

Dagmar knew there were worse things in this world than pretending to be a caring, demure woman. For instance, actually being a caring, demure woman. ... (G.A. Aiken)

Kicking off the comfortable slides, she ran from him in bare feet, her arms wide like wings, ropes of hair spilling down her back wildly like a glossy cape. His ... (Joey W. Hill)

According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving ... (Jay Leno)

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident ... (John Legend)