FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining small ... (John Steinbeck)

He loves me. But I love you. But you love her. It's always that way, isn't it? You're willing to wait for her just like I'm willing to wait for ... (Nessie Q.)

I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway ... (Jessica Lucas)

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity. ... (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster)

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you ... (Wael Ghonim)

I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal. ... (John Carpenter)

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books ... (Andrea Barrett)

When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from ... (Jeffrey Eugenides)

When things are good, it is because we remember a time when they were not. When there was pain. But now the pain is gone, so things are 'good'. When ... (Brooke Burgess)

I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which you find yourself is actually true- that somehow ... (Marisha Pessl)

In her dreams the Hawk would be waiting for her by the sea's edge; her kilt-clad, magnificent Scottish laird. He would smile and his eyes would crinkle, then turn dark ... (Karen Marie Moning)

That the crowning miracle of all the miracles summed up in the New Testament, after the miracle of the blind seeing, and the lame walking, and the restoration of the ... (Charles Dickens)

Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a ... (Kerry Greenwood)

Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was ... (John Steinbeck)

Finally, power-law distributions have "thick tails," meaning that they have a nonnegligible number of extreme values. You will never meet a 20-foot man, or see a car driving down the ... (Steven Pinker)

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere ... (William Butler Yeats)

With all of our doing. With all of our leading. With all of our teaching, the most important thing we can do for those whom we lead is to cultivate ... (Gordon B. Hinckley)

Expressing gratitude for the abundance that we have in our life make us feel rich. ... (Debasish Mridha)

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more - except his ... (Anonymous)

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire ... (Swami Vivekananda)

The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of ... (Alison Moyet)

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention he expected to fly but ... (Jennifer Niven)

Come over the hills and far with me And be my love in the rain. ... (Robert Frost)

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money. ... (Phyllis Chesler)

I gave you a few laughs and showed you a good time, but there was no future with me. So although it was fun while it lasted, you made up ... (N. Lombardi Jr.)

I definitely look back at certain moments and don't think I look good ... but I know why! I didn't have a hair stylist, I did all my own makeup, ... (Gwen Stefani)

I'll do it!" "No, you won't," Shane and Michael said, at virtually the same time. Shane continued. "You're barely on your feet, Claire. You don't go anywhere, not without me." ... (Rachel Caine)

You were going to refuse him?" "Yes." "Why?" I thought of you and I couldn't. ... (Jennifer Ashley)

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ... (Abraham Lincoln)