FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all ... (Jason Mraz)

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but ... (Seamus Heaney)

No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go ... (Jim Balsillie)

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors ... (Frederick Lenz)

One time I told this lady to give me all her money, she said no. So I cut her and pulled her eyes out. I would do someone in and ... (Richard Ramirez)

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing ... ... (Michelangelo Antonioni)

No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?" "Hunter didn't seem to be concerned," Gideon replied. "Said he had the situation under control." Lucan grunted, wry despite ... (Tina St. John)

No research without action, no action without research. ... (Kurt Lewin)

One day a man came running to a Sufi and said, panting, "Hey, they are carrying trays, look over there!" The Sufi answered calmly, "What is it to us? Is ... (Elif Shafak)

The second is the release from the principle of authority, that is, from any obligation to obey parents, the Church, the state, and whoever places restrictions in the name of ... (Fr Gabriele Amorth)

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you. ... (Kim Harrison)

The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. ... (Henry David Thoreau)

She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe. ... (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty ... mine's putting in an express lane. ... (Ron White)

You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever ... (Elliot Perlman)

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to ... (John Donne)

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. ... (Christy Romano)

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our ... (David Hume)

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready. ... (Henny Youngman)

If we have largely forgotten the physical discomforts of the itching, oppressive garments of the past and the corrosive effects of perpetual physical discomfort on the nerves, then we have ... (Angela Carter)

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me. ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

When they reached the peak, he faced her, gathered her to him, and gazed into her amazing blue eyes. "You look beautiful," he said huskily, surprising himself with his tone. ... (Tracy March)

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. ... (Taylor Swift)

William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea. ... (Sid Waddell)

He dialed the hotel he had last seen through the horn-rimmed spectacles of his childhood. Dialing that number, 1-207-941-8282, was fatally easy. He held the telephone to his ear, ... (Stephen King)

Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year ... (C.J. Cherryh)

Him aloof or cold, only shy and on occasion melancholy. Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his ... (Dean Koontz)

They don't know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend upon them. ... (Larry McMurtry)

We need more physicians on air. We understand the human being, experience and condition, and we need to be using media to deliver that. We cannot be afraid to entertain. ... (Drew Pinsky)

I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. ... (Arthur Conan Doyle)