FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

They're like little boys, men. Sometimes of course they're rather naughty and you have to pretend to be angry with them. They attach so much importance to such entirely unimportant ... (W. Somerset Maugham)

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian. ... (Yann Martel)

Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of ... (J. Robert Lennon)

[Olive's] left foot was bleeding through a wide swath of bandages onto the tarp it was resting on. The bowl next to her was full of blood. Olive looked a ... (Amelia Gray)

He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how delightful a well-judging ... (Jane Austen)

If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - ... (Julianna Baggott)

Relax, the bad guys don't knock. (Romeo) ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. ... (Haruki Murakami)

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. ... (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing. ... (Debra Messing)

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right. ... (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

Three days ago, Dana had been kidnapped by the Norse god Loki and trapped in the Greek Underworld. ... (Tony Abbott)

The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord ... (Caedmon)

We ask Mary that, as the first disciple, she teach us to remain watching, that she accompany us in patience, strengthen us in hope; we ask that she lead us ... (Pope Francis)

Yes we all have despair but we also all have the power within us to overcome it and to help others overcome it to. ... (Timothy Pina)

For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you. ... (Renee Ahdieh)

He's coming for you, is all she says. This is how he always does it. He's coming for you, Kat, and I don't know how to save you. I'm packing ... (Philippa Gregory)

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made ... (Junot Diaz)

Everything happens because of dreams. ... (Debasish Mridha)

The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will ... (Joseph Smith Jr.)

You have got a good side? I have. I just do not use it too often. My bad side is so much more fun. ... (Faye Kellerman)

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just ... (Jonah Hill)

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. The effect of a tawdry, unarranged, and over-decorated ... (John Dewey)

I had been reading Wittgenstein. There are no philosophical problems, only linguistic misunderstandings. Was this so? If so, why write at such length about it? I could understand [his] attraction ... (Joyce Carol Oates)

I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and cheese. ... (Marion Jones)

Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to ... (Eleanor Rathbone)

Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey. ... (Jim Cummings)

On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. The Shepherd of Hermas and many writings ... (Luke Timothy Johnson)

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor. ... (Trey Gowdy)

The first of the telegrams arrived shortly after noon, and Jeeves brought it in with the before-luncheon snifter. It was from Aunt Dahlia, operating from Market Snodsbury, a small town ... (P.G. Wodehouse)