FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but ... (Junot Diaz)

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral. ... (William Everson)

Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power So scatter ... (Christopher Marlowe)

There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money ... (Nicolas Sarkozy)

And your doubt may become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become critical. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's ... (Orlando Bloom)

How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness? ... (Sarah J. Maas)

As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or disbelieve Him, and I died. What is ... (Leo Tolstoy)

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not ... (Tahir Shah)

Where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant ... (Isabel Burton)

Peace above all, even above love. ... (Laure Lacornette)

There's only so far you can push a horse before it collapses ... (Ekaterina Sedia)

When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall ... (Robert Hunter)

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks. Feeney in Naked in Death ... (J.D. Robb)

The purpose of sound is silence. ... (Jill Purce)

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces. ... (Heather Mills)

I'm so happy for the both of you. Savor this moment. Remembering this feeling, because it won't always be like this. You'll have ups, you'll have downs. You'll drive each ... (S.C. Stephens)

People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' ... (Twyla Tharp)

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all ... (Victoria Lynn Schmidt)

I stepped out of the circle of his arms with reluctance and patted him on his butt. "That'll do, donkey," I said, in my best Scottish accent. ... (H.D. Gordon)

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living. ... (Aleksandar Hemon)

I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice. ... (Sheena Iyengar)

Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and ... (David Lilienthal)

Just because you have the ability to love deeply doesn't mean what your thinking is correct ... loving is a mammalian feature. ... (Christopher Zzenn Loren)

The craziest place I've probably ever visited while filming would have to be Jordan. I did a small test shoot for a test movie. We arrived in Jordan, and we ... (Isaac Hempstead-Wright)

Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents, to tell the truth, pass exams, ... (Chloe Thurlow)

Any time people create a "black market" to avoid government regulation, they are engaged in, and promoting, free market economics. ... (Dave Champion)

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of ... (Tommy Hilfiger)

When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don't date around. I haven't been on a date. ... (Katy Perry)

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue. ... (Marcus Tullius Cicero)