FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist. ... (Don Watson)

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible. ... (Theodor Adorno)

Most Christian teachers would profess to believe that their students are made in the image of God. . .Classroom practices, however, often reveal that students are not treated accordingly. They ... (Donovan L. Graham)

God wants to save us in a people. He does not want to save us in isolation. And so today's church more than ever is accentuating the idea of being ... (Oscar A. Romero)

I don't believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color looks more polished and grown-up than a super-shiny ... (Bobbi Brown)

As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for your daughter and being afraid, and having to ... (Kristin Bauer van Straten)

It's funny how, when you look back on the big things that have happened in your life, you realize that there were small things you might have done which would ... (Stuart Prebble)

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)

Mack was lying in the darkness, listening intently. "Aren't you talking about a real indwelling, not just some positional, theological thing?" "Of course," answered Jesus, his voice strong and sure. ... (William Paul Young)

Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper. ... (Gonjasufi)

Burial practices illustrated the two men's different outlooks. Custer believed a body should be buried in a long-lasting metal casket, thus removing the body from the ecological system by preventing ... (Stephen E. Ambrose)

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. ... (Luis Palau)

This guy! I plead the fifth. This guy is nuts." - Eminem "Dope questions, man. Very insightful, very thoughtful." - Guru (Gang Starr) "You like a Psychiatrist or some shit? ... (Harris Rosen)

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass ... (Steve Albini)

Embodiments know not what slavery may be where minds in shackles and chains put nature to shame Mind, shallow or neat, are found where thoughts may run deep, a family ... (Dew Platt)

I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new books by Alice Hoffman, John Crowley, Joanne Harris, ... (Terri Windling)

I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days. ... (Brenda Weiler)

I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they ... (George Carlin)

To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] ... (Josh Sugarmann)

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my ... (Peggy Fleming)

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has. ... (Jacki Weaver)

How was she not the quintessential woman in our culture, compulsively pleasing others in order to achieve some degree of perfection and power that's forever just around the corner, out ... (Kim Gordon)

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. ... (Steven Pressfield)

The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve ... (Robin Sharma)

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of ... (Michelle Obama)

Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And ... (James Baldwin)

So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but I'm in disguise. But probably many ... (Joan Silber)

And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I don't care where you live, there is a ... (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Sparta has no philosophers. That's because the job of a philosopher is to understand things better, which is a form of change, so they don't want it. Another difference: they ... (David Deutsch)

Life is long, if only you knew how to use it. ... (Seneca.)