FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I'm planning to go redneck chic with the wedding," Maddy announced, looking through the racks of dresses. "What the hell is that?" "Redneck chic is a nice way of saying ... (Bijou Hunter)

Jamie Randall: [Last lines] I used to worry a lot about who I'd be when I grew up. You know, like how much money I'd make or, umm, like some ... (Margaret Watson)

A small hole in his shirt revealed a gooey red blob right in the meaty part above his armpit, blood pouring from the wound. It hurt. It hurt bad. If ... (James Dashner)

The people of Lancre wouldn't dream of living in anything other than a monarchy. They'd done so for thousands of years and knew that it worked. But they'd also found ... (Terry Pratchett)

Love and hatred are not merely subjective feelings, affecting the inward universe of those who experience them, but they are also objective forces, altering the world outside ourselves...if this is ... (Kallistos Ware)

As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him, too. ... (America Ferrera)

She described how Camus's aphorism "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" helps her fight back against unproductive feelings of meaninglessness. If we consider, like Camus, Sisyphus at the foot of his ... (Fay Weldon)

Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a ... (Samantha Harvey)

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora ... (Christopher Pearse Cranch)

Love and lust aren't always in sync. You can love someone, but not be ready to have sex with them. Or you can meet someone random and end up jumping ... (Dorota Skrzypek)

Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than ... (Neal A. Maxwell)

To be well in your mind you have first to be free. ... (Chris Cleave)

We're not about picking a mayor. We're about making a mayor, making the winner. And that's what we're gonna do ... . I talk to them (the mayoral candidates) constantly. ... (Michael Mulgrew)

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a ... (Rick Yancey)

We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to ... (Jimmy Carter)

[ ... ] and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common ... (Douglas Coupland)

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. ... (Edgar Allan Poe)

After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next ... (Ursula K. Le Guin)

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and ... (Leo Tolstoy)

You," he says to me, his hands gripping me tighter now, "are one of the bravest, strongest people I've ever met. You have the best heart, the best intentions - ... (Tahereh Mafi)

You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next ... (Joe Abercrombie)

It's time to make America safe again. It's time to make America one again. I know it can be done because I did it by changing New York City from ... (Rudy Giuliani)

And may you happy live, And long us bless. ... (Christina Rossetti)

Before he came to Alaka, he dared to hope that he was meant for something more. Now he dared to hope that he could shape that meaning for himself. All ... (Roshani Chokshi)

Vicky had once told her that she should not be ashamed of her pubic hair. Pubic hair was what men expected to see on women. Vicky said that there was ... (Nicholas Chong)

Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition of Protestantism that comes out of the Reformation ... (Marilynne Robinson)

A world that becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else. First it's Jews, already abandoning France. Then it's homosexuals, already under siege from gay-bashing in Amsterdam, 'the most tolerant city ... (Mark Steyn)

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as ... (Charles Colson)

You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard ... (Frederick Lenz)

You may not have heard, Duke, that there is a new word to describe that sort of attitude," said the archivist, who was Secretary to the Committee against Reconsideration, "One ... (Marcel Proust)