FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and the presumption of guessing at the ... (Markham Shaw Pyle)

For me, the words 'Anything is possible' haven't served as a bolstering of hope as much as a warning to run for cover ... (Bernard Cooper)

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. ... (Adam Carolla)

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' ... (Bart Chilton)

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it. ... (William Bernbach)

In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had ... (John Edward Williams)

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even ... (Bryant McGill)

Instead I've built a house made of lies that have come crashing down around me. ... (Anna Bell)

There are as many approaches to unschooling as there are people, by design. A child is supported to read when ready and interested, not on another's timetable, for example. He ... (Kytka Hilmar-Jezek)

Marie Caroline Jensen, will you marry me?" he asked suddenly, looking right into my eyes. I bit my lip, trying to decide how long to drag it out. Maybe a ... (Joanna Wylde)

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you? ... (Meg Cabot)

What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on ... (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

Only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality. ... (Ayn Rand)

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning ... (James Joseph Sylvester)

Children don't expect words to be used to create false trails. Words to Esme are plain and simple with no hidden codes, no duplicitous underlife. He thinks of the conversations ... (Glenn Haybittle)

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. ... (Herbert Hoover)

You must never fear anything at all. ... (Vernon Howard)

The forms of direct-half-hidden and completely hidden quoting were endlessly varied, as were the forms for framing quotations by a context, forms of intonational quotation marks, varying degrees of alienation ... (Mikhail Bakhtin)

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, ... (Christian Nestell Bovee)

The trouble with the world is, Frankie, that there are too many ideals and too little horse sense . . . Human beings don't like peace and good will and ... (Philip Hoare)

Your reputation is what others think of you; your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated; character can only be developed and maintained. ... (Bohdi Sanders)

Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting ... (Eve Ensler)

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt ... (Karen Blixen)

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago. ... (Shelley Winters)

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist. ... (Isamu Noguchi)

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing ... (Conor Oberst)

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life. ... (Carrie Fisher)

For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay ... (John Hutton)

She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb. Her fingers were trembling. Park shifted in his seat and turned his back to the aisle. "Okay?" ... (Rainbow Rowell)

When the magnet does not attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt that covers up the needle. ... (Sai Baba)