FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

What we love is too much in the past, consists too much in the time that we have spent together for us to require the whole woman; we wish only ... (Marcel Proust)

Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and I've got your face filling the screen, you ... (Paul Feig)

Our winters are very long here, very long and very monotonous. But we don't complain about it downstairs, we're shielded against the winter. Oh, spring does come eventually, and summer, ... (Franz Kafka)

My deal is to understand: you trust me, I trust you. It's a two-way street. Developing that happens over time. It's hard. I look forward to that. I look forward ... (Jim McElwain)

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child I am twelve-and-a-half years old but it still isn't ... (Judith Martin)

Don't ever say that after sex, do you understand? If you feel the urge to say it, go see the girl first thing in the morning, with her night breath ... (Jess Walter)

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of ... (Garth Nix)

I was young and beginning to study the Bible for myself and, in the process, came to believe that I held a volatile document in my hands-one that had the ... (Bruxy Cavey)

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over ... (Herbert Hoover)

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken ... (Halldor Laxness)

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas. ... (Andrei Sakharov)

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. ... (Philip Jose Farmer)

I shun all activities and you have none. You have freed yourself from all duties which had been forced on you. And so you need not know what time of ... (R.K. Narayan)

I'm not sure I ever made a woman come with my mouth before I met you," he admits. "I love kissing you there. And I love your ass, it's perfect." ... (Christina Lauren)

Are you scared of me now?" She wanted the truth. "More than ever." He had lowered his guard, putting himself at her mercy, because running away had only served to ... (Llarjme)

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if ... (Adam Oates)

Houses of Congress have ... requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful ... (George Washington)

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to. ... (Eddie Bernice Johnson)

She leaned toward him and said in a quiet voice, "Are you Christian?" Mitchell hesitated to answer. The worst thing about religion was religious people. ... (Jeffrey Eugenides)

Good health, good life. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate. ... (Emily Bronte)

No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort. ... (Sarah Ban Breathnach)

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me. ... (Donald Trump)

He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man. ... (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs. I ... (Tarryn Fisher)

This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris ... any future space launch would be grounded ... (Max Brooks)

Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs ... (Nathaniel Rateliff)

Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles. ... (Steven Pinker)

In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight. ... (Edward Conlon)

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. ... (Henry Ward Beecher)