FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Such disappointments, betrayals and reconciliations were the stuff of married life, but she and Jack had gone through them before the wedding. Now, at least, she felt confident that she ... (Ken Follett)

I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't approve of her working after she had children. ... (Reese Witherspoon)

With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This ... (Howard Zinn)

I wanted to double-check with you that your mailing address is still the same as the one you sent us back in April? If you're a college student I know ... (Marilynne Robinson)

I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that's ... (Billy Porter)

I do not know who coined the statement "an idle mind is the devil's playground," but it is true. When camping in dangerous places, it is often recommended that you ... (Kris Vallotton)

These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness regardless of what they were doing. But therefore ... (Banana Yoshimoto)

A child said to me 'Do you want to see my penis?' and I said 'Maybe when you're older' and his mom said 'What's wrong with you?' so I said ... (Tao Lin)

Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me." "It's more complicated than that," I said automatically. "It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've ... (Richelle Mead)

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one! ... (Colbie Caillat)

The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world ... Let Jesus ... (Pope John Paul II)

You need to speak up even if the room is full of baritones! ... (Anuranjita Kumar)

We're still going to be learning in Heaven. We will still be developing and are not yet absolutely perfect. That's what the future is all about - to continue the ... (David Berg)

If you love your dad, it's tough when he dies. If you don't like your dad, it's tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn't get, ... (Jimmy Iovine)

I walked into you. The white room is a hospital. It happens on the borders between healing and pain. The light is as surgical as a laser. The light finds ... (Jeanette Winterson)

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you ... (Lynn Flewelling)

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you ... (Muhammad Yunus)

Please leave the window open. ... (Jim Varney)

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show. ... (Tommy Emmanuel)

The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about ... (Sigmund Freud)

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death. ... (Janet Morris)

The owner was this very thin woman who looked sort of bitchy, which, think about it, most very thin women do-even when they smile, it's like grimacing. Fat people are ... (Elizabeth Berg)

The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions a mockery of our sense of order. The clown (freedom) is ... (Tom Robbins)

Public service is a tautology. It defines itself. It means to serve the public. Not yourself. It doesn't mean that you become enriched or have your name emblazoned on headlines. ... (L. Douglas Wilder)

Carlyle had come fluttering to the flame, lured by the false invitation Dominic had sent in Eloise's name and lured, too, by Eloise's conclusion that J.E.D.D. Mason was something not ... (Ada Palmer)

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know ... (Greg Iles)

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. ... (Grace Paley)

Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go." ... (Cassandra Clare)

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. ... (Henry Taylor)

Small bottle of penicillin tablets. ... (Diana Gabaldon)