FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet ... (Matthew Quick)

I realize that I have to put myself out there to get what I want. ... (Susane Colasanti)

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary salience of the subjects he ... (Christopher Hitchens)

It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't ... (Bill Sharman)

The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of authority as a form of good; ... (Adam Nicolson)

You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have ... (Billy Collins)

Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go ... (James Baldwin)

Look I have somewhere I have to be and I don't particularly love that I have to go, but you freaking out and making a scene is not going to ... (Jay Crownover)

But the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other side. ... (James Baldwin)

Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanation - it is self-evident. ... (Laurie A. Helgoe)

I don't know if you feel conflict when you hear the phrase "new reality," or if it makes you want to throw in the towel. When you realize that the ... (Mary-Louise Parker)

... the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element ... ... (Derek Walcott)

Uncle seemed to take pleasure from knowing things other people didn't. Silas did not like thinking this about the man who'd given them a place to live, but there was ... (Ari Berk)

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love ... (Dorothy Hamill)

Do you love me?" There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. "Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!" "What do you ... (Lois Lowry)

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character. ... (H.L. Mencken)

Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very ... (Osho)

While there remains such an idea as the right of each State to control its own local affairs, - an idea, by the way, more deeply rooted in the minds ... (Frederick Douglass)

In recent decades, Ireland in general and Dublin in particular, have been very fortunate in the quality of the historical attention they have received. During the extensive research required to ... (Edward Rutherfurd)

Hey, Eriele?" he said. "You know what's funny?... You're so busy yelling at Ian," Dan said, "you didn't notice our altitude. Time to change the gas mixture. ... (C. Alexander London)

'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.' ... (Mike Gayle)

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours. ... (Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers)

From this, I concluded the following: 1. I've been in a dust storm for several sols. 2. Shit. ... (Andy Weir)

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie. ... (Irving Berlin)

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized ... ... (Michael Bell)

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them. ... (Jack Kevorkian)

My, I was scared!" Said Billy with a deep breath. Scared?" Questioned Elnora. Yes, sir-ee! Aunt Margaret scared me. May i ask you a question?" Of course, you may!" Is ... (Gene Stratton-Porter)

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very ... (Nicolas Winding Refn)

Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount to anything; perhaps this did effect ... (C. Wright Mills)

Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, ... (Bob Frank)