FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The opposite is best. Whenever you're angry with someone, apply this maxim. I means doing the exact opposite of what your body's telling you to do. Believe me, it works ... (Francesc Miralles)

We didn't know what he did on the weekends. What sort of person showed up on Monday and had no interest in sharing what transpired during the two days of ... (Joshua Ferris)

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun. ... (Dusty Baker)

Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could ... (Alice Hoffman)

I can't take this kind of suspense. Decide now." He untied the ropes around her wrists. "Walk out the door. In a year you'll be free of any entanglements with ... (Christina Dodd)

Each time you spend a sleepless night to finish a project, try to provide an answer to the following questions: Does this project really call for non-negotiable urgency? Is there ... (Tobias Hansen)

Food has played a central role not only in my professional but also in my emotional life, in all of my dealings with loved ones and most of all in ... (Padma Lakshmi)

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But ... (Sara Sheridan)

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it. ... (Garry Marshall)

Suddenly I remembered something Daddy told me once when I was angry at my mother. "You know how Mom arranges orange slices on a plate for your soccer team and ... (Diane Chamberlain)

Write about winter in the summer. ... (Annie Dillard)

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to ... (Lucinda Williams)

Or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also ... (Ashley Bell)

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. ... (Norman Ralph Augustine)

I couldn't tear my eyes from the window, wanting to drink in as much of St. Louis as I could, knowing somewhere out there, one of those infinitesimally small lights ... (Leah Raeder)

The orange turns to dull bronze light and continues to show what it has shown all day long, but now it seems to show it without enthusiasm. Across those dry ... (Robert M. Pirsig)

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on. ... (Dr. John)

We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for ... (Richard D. Phillips)

I am looking for an honest man. ... (Diogenes)

We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters ... (Joe Abercrombie)

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and ... (Marc Reisner)

-compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes ... (Michael Pollan)

I see two people in love," he said with his gaze fixed on hers in the glass. "Two very different people who look extraordinarily well together." Shelby leaned her head ... (Nora Roberts)

If I am a better person, and if I try harder every day, perhaps all of this will work out. ... (Jennifer Lynch)

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want ... (Paul Cellucci)

Many words made no sense to me; it was a particular kind of language, highly stylized, while at the same time much of the dialogue between officers seemed informal, even ... (Kate Mulgrew)

Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: ... (Lynsey Addario)

I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I'll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then ... (Jasmine Warga)

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed. ... (P. J. O'Rourke)

It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one ... (William Goldman)