FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out ... (Barbara Kingsolver)

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange ... (Ben Carson)

Explain to me again how matricide is illegal in some states," Sissy growled from behind him as he pulled her toward the enormous staircase. "In all states. Plus, I think ... (Shelly Laurenston)

That night marks my life's dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The wonder to me now is that I thought ... (Barbara Kingsolver)

Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never ... (Chris Rock)

Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and ... (Michael Moorer)

O my Charlotte, the sacred, tender remembrance! Gracious Heaven! restore to me the happy moment of our first acquaintance. I smile at the suggestions of my heart, and obey its ... (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion ... (William Hazlitt)

The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the Lord. Amazingly, ... (Simon Blackburn)

In the production of a good play with a good cast and a knowing director a kind of banding-together occurs; there is formed a fraternity whose members share a mutual ... (Arthur Miller)

Her father said, "You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

A good portion of my work with Tangerine Dream at the time involved film music, and I remember approaching it as any 23-year-old would - without much fear or respect. ... (Paul Haslinger)

Syn was so lost in the feelings it hadn't registered that Furi was nudging at his hole with something other than his tongue. It was blunt, slick, and cold. Syn ... (A.E. Via)

She wondered what it said about her spiritual fitness that her clearest messages from the Almighty seemed to come from the alternative rock station. ... (Julia Spencer-Fleming)

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust. ... (Aviva Cantor)

I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule. ... (Ron Luciano)

These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness regardless of what they were doing. But therefore ... (Banana Yoshimoto)

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused. ... (George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton)

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world. ... (Richard Kadrey)

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want ... (Nick Frost)

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. ... (Fernando Pessoa)

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with ... (Dale Carnegie)

I don't think tea will quite do, we need something a little more fortifying on such an auspicious occasion. Hot chocolate with fresh cream, that's the thing. ... (Menna van Praag)

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' ... (Eric Hobsbawm)

It was not the destination that matters, but the journey. Which is true in its way, but destinations aren't all that bad. And as we kept driving north, the whole ... (John Green)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. ... (Ken Salazar)

Bessie was News, Leaders, and Gossip; Enid was Features, Make-up and general Sub. Whenever they were at a loss for copy they would mercilessly pillage ancient copies of Punch or ... (Lawrence Durrell)

I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" ... but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long ... (Joseph Story)

It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally. ... (Chuck Klosterman)

Strangely, the subsequent AIDS works that have become iconic in our culture rarely mention the movement, or the engaged community of lovers, but both formations were inseparable from the crisis ... (Sarah Schulman)