FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or ... (Joshua Cohen)

There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: there are no rules. Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As ... (Shonda Rhimes)

An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands ... (Jeremy Narby)

I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm really squeamish. But if I had to pick a favorite, it would definitely ... (Brendan Robinson)

Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a ... (John Scalzi)

Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing. ... (Coretta Scott King)

I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job. ... (Doug Stanhope)

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate ... (Jenny Eclair)

I tilt my head sideways so I can look him straight on. "What firsts have we already passed?" "The easy ones. First hug, first date, first fight, first time we ... (Colleen Hoover)

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my ... (A.S. Byatt)

Precious Auntie, what is our name? I always meant to claim it as my own. Come help me remember. I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm not afraid of ghosts. ... (Amy Tan)

Your life isn't some prerecorded movie where, no matter how many times you watch it, the ending remains the same. Your life is a book in progress, and you are ... (Richelle E. Goodrich)

There is something else about memory, something Thomas hadn't brought up. It's not a video recording. It's subjective. It's a culturally relevant account of what happened. It doesn't matter if ... (Jodi Picoult)

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join ... (William Shakespeare)

Maybe we should go by tube', he said. A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'. She remembered something a woman in Paris had told her once. A woman ... (William Boyd)

Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you've got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is ... (Nathan Englander)

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

... you know what was really messing me up when I got down there to Pittsburgh? Was how young he seemed. He kept asking me things like what did I ... (Wally Lamb)

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their ... (Vera Wang)

I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of a cardboard box on the street where we ... (Bob Peterson)

Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who ... (Lynne Truss)

For some people the experience of crossing by carriage was positively terrifying. "You drive over to Suspension Bridge," wrote Mark Twain, "and divide your misery between the chances of smashing ... (David McCullough)

Many men want wealth, not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward ... (Henry Ward Beecher)

No, this was a melting together, a vanishing together into a soft, dark womb of warmth. ... (Anais Nin)

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands. ... (Antony Beevor)

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful ... (A.R. Rahman)

When God doesn't send an angel, sometimes He sends a friend. ... (Matshona Dhliwayo)

Narcissism is very much a "disorder of superficiality." Given that the entire world is trending towards greater superficiality in all endeavors - work, school, parenting, and love - the narcissists' ... (Ramani Durvasula)

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction. ... (Bradley Whitford)

I'd give anything to make things right for you." He caressed my cheek, my hair, my back. Everywhere he touched, the angry fires cooled. I wished he'd touch my heart. ... (Jodi Meadows)