FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth ... (William Faulkner)

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat. ... (John Barrasso)

My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the rules, but my mom laid ... (Ashton Kutcher)

The guy I tried to forget. No, damn it, I did forget him. I lived every single day for two years without him. I lived. I suffered, and I breathed. ... (Nashoda Rose)

Two years of oblivion have reduced me, if not to emptiness, than to something that sits closely beside it. It laid waste all that I was inside, and severed what ... (Kinoko Nasu)

Great! I hope different police officers are here this time." "Might be, but we're in the same police jurisdiction. I'm certain from the last time you were here, they probably ... (Terry Spear)

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. ... (Tom Peters)

I'm about two seconds from pulling you into the bathroom and forcing you onto your knees, so if you blow up at me or flip out about the dress or ... (Christina Lauren)

Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive. ... (Jamie Tworkowski)

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain. ... (Jane Austen)

Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi. ... (Nicholas Kristof)

When the poverty comes in the room automatically love go from room windows. ... (AbdulNasir)

Some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. ... (Jean Toomer)

No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. No retreating into your own soul, or trying to escape it. No overactivity. They kill ... (Marcus Aurelius)

I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life ... (Rachel McAdams)

Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you! ... (Nilantha Ilangamuwa)

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan. ... (Eugene Jarecki)

Missing rubs the soul raw. ... (Sarah Dunant)

There are those who will say that I brought this upon myself. By dabbling in that quiz show. They will wag a finger at me and remind me of what ... (Vikas Swarup)

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver. ... (Ken Follett)

On one hand, you couldn't count on anything; on the other, on any given day, change was vanishingly unlikely. ... (Garth Risk Hallberg)

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus. ... (Tony Bates)

In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are both ... witches! In 'Frogs & ... (Sarah Mlynowski)

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas. ... (Henry Garza)

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me. ... (Margaret Murray)

The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists ... (Dion Fortune)

After that, Marya Morevna understood that she belonged to her secret and it belonged to her. They had struck a bloody bargain between them. Keep me and obey me, the ... (Catherynne M Valente)

It was around this time that I'd begun trying to perfect the art of fucking with people's minds. I'd figured out that when someone else was hogging the limelight, you ... (Ryu Murakami)

::Fight, Kayla. You are the sea that swallows her river, the sky that absorbs her smoke. Absorb her flow. Make it yours.:: Kayla ... (Rhonda Mason)

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that ... (Walter Kirn)