FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all ... (Pearl S. Buck)

In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed. A twanging noise like a wooden ruler being ... (Neil Gaiman)

Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet he also cautions, "Wherever the notion of paradise ... (Heather Paxson)

The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more ... (Andrew S. Draper)

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any ... (Holly Black)

Texts between Dr. Stayner & Livie(with a little help from Kacey) Dr. Stayner: Tell me you did one out-of-character thing last night Livie: I drank enough Jell-O shots to fill ... (K.A. Tucker)

Rumer Willis was having a great time at the opening of a club when her twin walked in, also known as her dad, Bruce Willis. How embarrassing for her, she's ... (Chelsea Handler)

I have seen the consequences of attempting to shortcut this natural process of growth often in the business world, where executives attempt to "buy" a new culture of improved productivity, ... (Stephen R. Covey)

Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I have had has caused both. I have made ... (Blaise Pascal)

In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast ... (Dean Koontz)

Nobody ever got their ass out of the ghetto by letting someone else step ahead of them in line. And no-one ever got rich and famous by laying back and ... (Snoop Dogg)

It didn't occur to me that I never named my own mystery illness the spring before (except to misdiagnose it to friends as mono), because I'd been afraid to admit, ... (Lorene Cary)

I don't really know how dating works," Jared told her. "High school for me was mostly musical numbers. That's how it is in the States, you've seen the movies. Every ... (Sarah Rees Brennan)

There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first ... (Julie Berry)

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment. ... (Dionne Warwick)

You're both perfectly all right," she informed them. "And we will get Aurimere back, and our magic back, and our town back, and then we will have everything we need." ... (Sarah Rees Brennan)

The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with ... (Suzan Battah)

When I look at you, I don't see my father's friend, or my uncle, or my godfather, or an older man. All I see is the person I've always loved ... (Carian Cole)

The next thing I knew I was laying face first on the ground, ... (Jessica Sorensen)

If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love? ... (Nicole Krauss)

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ... (J.K. Rowling)

As a youth, I listened to the rain from the bowers of pleasure houses, Red silk drapes translucent in the glow of candlelight. In my prime, I listened to the ... (Sherry Thomas)

God language can tie people into knots, of course. In part, that is because 'God' is not God's name. Referring to the highest power we can imagine, 'God' is our ... (Forrest Church)

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun. ... (Beau Mirchoff)

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. ... (Peter Drucker)

Linnaeus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery ... (Henry David Thoreau)

When,' is not something you ask someone when the bodies of their aunt. uncle. friends. first love. cannot be found. ... (Nayyirah Waheed)

There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with ... (C. JoyBell C.)

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one ... (Jay Electronica)

Theory of Evolution (Summary) First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management. ... (Scott Adams)