FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course. ... (Caitlyn Jenner)

E continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females ... and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all ... (Elizabeth Peters)

My eyes trail from his hand to the tattoo written in small script across his forearm. Hopeless ... (Colleen Hoover)

The trust that had been building inside each of us spread throughout the classroom. Had one of the windows broken at that moment, not even the sound of breaking glass ... (Kyung-Sook Shin)

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It's not like if you're in Los Angeles, where everyone's so actively working ... (Mindy Kaling)

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a ... (Twyla Tharp)

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it - that you are it. ... (Byron Katie)

It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget" - and things like that when you are not involved, but when you ... (John Steinbeck)

Captain West advanced to meet me, and before our outstretched hands touched, before his face broke from repose to greeting and the lips moved to speech, I got the first ... (Jack London)

The parishioners looked dazed, but happy. The only thing good Catholics love more than God is a short service. Keep your organ music, your choir, keep your incense and processionals. ... (Dennis Lehane)

Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or ... (Nathaniel Branden)

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them. ... (Elizabeth George)

An enormous bartender came over. He looked like the pullout centerfold for Leather Biker Monthly. Extra big and extra scary. He had long hair, a long scar, and tattoos of ... (Harlan Coben)

Mum worked as a secretary for Orson Welles for what sounded like a very miserable year. Her brother was the actor Jeremy Brett, who became famous for playing Sherlock Holmes. ... (Martin Clunes)

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd ... (Jonathan Safran Foer)

Good night, Aphrodite," he said softly, liking the feel of the word on his lips, like some sort of incantation. Her green eyes widened behind her spectacles at hearing him ... (Manda Collins)

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may ... (Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand)

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. ... (Frederick William Robertson)

The invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; ... (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin. A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able ... (J. Robert Spencer)

I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. ... (Nirmala Srivastava)

He's not your type." Peabody's face clouded exactly as it had when Eve had rejected the perfume. "How come - I like looking at his type." "Sure, but try to ... (J.D. Robb)

I really liked this cowboy. Mack. But I didn't know a single thing about him other than the fact that he doesn't wear underwear and he's got a big cock-a-doodle ... (Elle Casey)

Shot Dunyun: No bullshit, but I never leave the house without a mix for anything: Falling in love. Witnessing a death. Disappointment. Impatience. Traffic. I carry a mix for any ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined. ... (John Shattuck)

A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must ... (Christopher Hitchens)

In the name of God and humanity I protest! ... (John Bell Hood)

The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of an entire wall and entire ... (Van Day Truex)

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. ... (Thomas A. Edison)

Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally ... (Naomi Wolf)