FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly ... (Ernest Agyemang Yeboah)

III But may I, when alone again I have the city's crush and tangled noise-skein and the furor of its traffic all around me, may I above the mindless swirl ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

I'm constantly trying to make what Stephen King called head movies or skull movies: things should be playing out on the inside of your eyes, if you will, without you ... (Clive Barker)

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the ... (Simone de Beauvoir)

It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, ... (Denis Diderot)

Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons ... (Soraya Diase Coffelt)

Jack had been a jerk that night, even though I tried not to remember that part. It felt like I wasn't missing him properly if I let myself remember how ... (Maggie Stiefvater)

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, ... (Aasif Mandvi)

And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both ... (Jurgen Klinsmann)

I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we ... (Michael Scott)

Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are! ... (Napoleon Hill)

Do you dislike Children? I ask, entertained at the little one's cleverness in dodging capture attempts. "I don't dislike them, nor do I like them. I've never understood why one ... (Kiersten White)

Everyone of us has a heaven inside. ... (Kate Bush)

When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see ... (Jay-Z)

I don't believe in monsters." "Well, Red, I think you might want to start." Pike turned and looked him in the eye. "What do you think those green things were? ... (Jack Keely)

Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for all the good it did her. ... (Moriah Densley)

Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think the trouble with a lot ... (George Burns)

Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her ... (Ray Toro)

By abstraction, we mean identifying aspects that are important to a task at hand, and hiding details of other aspects. Of course, the other aspects can't be ignored arbitrarily. Rather, ... (Peter J. Ashenden)

I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended ... The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China. ... (Cameron Diaz)

My sister is 16 and I tell her to take risks. Really explore and meet as many people as you can. Do as much as you can before reality kicks ... (Taylor Kitsch)

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more. ... (Karin Slaughter)

I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience. ... (Charlotte Church)

They had gone. Had left him alone with all the blue, that clashed with the red of fire. Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the ... (Cornelia Funke)

The world of "magick" is, nine times out of ten, a world where people can hide their deep-set insecurity and personal damage behind illusion, constructed identities and claims to privileged ... (Jason Louv)

I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels. ... (Jamie McGuire)

I was there when Sam Raimi showed Stan Lee the first cut of the first Spider-Man movie. I was on a couch next to Stan, watching how special effects had ... (Brian Michael Bendis)

All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them not products of the imagination but ... (Victor J. Stenger)

Their kiss was gentle at first, and then she pressed him for more like she'd done before, but this time neither work nor pack members would intrude. His blood sizzled ... (Terry Spear)

Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never ... (Marisha Pessl)