FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Aren't you afraid, though?" Ayumi asked Aomame. "Afraid of what?" "Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I ... (Haruki Murakami)

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name. ... (John le Carre)

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. ... (Anne Lamott)

This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because ... (Carl von Clausewitz)

I love you, Ink, and I want you-only you. Being strong doesn't mean I don't want you too. You are the only person who knows every part of my life, ... (Dawn Metcalf)

I've finally found what I've been searching for ... a family. ... (Katie McGarry)

The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using ... (Daniel H. Wilson)

When we are at last freed from the body that has defined and dominated our understanding of ourselves for so long, the karmic vision of one life is completely exhausted, ... (Sogyal Rinpoche)

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ... (Freeman Dyson)

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier. ... (Clarence Clemons)

Still, he could feel a fine cord stretched between them, a thin luminous fiber that ran from his chest all the way across the continent and forked into theirs. Never ... (Julie Orringer)

Okay, my man, in a minute you are gonna hear a bunch of shit that's gonna knock your socks off. So, two seconds to prepare, Ivey is my best friend, ... (Kristen Ashley)

Nintendo not letting itself make a browser Mario game has not stopped a flash flood of in-browser Mario games. Super Mario Flash, New Super Mario Bros. Flash, Infinite Mario, and ... (Jeff Ryan)

It was not the first time people had taken a good square look at Armaggedon and decided that they would prefer it to happen to somebody else. Ever since Noah ... (Ben Elton)

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many ... (Sue Monk Kidd)

Although Genesis didn't deepen their kiss or steal his own taste, he did lick his own lips, taking the taste of Curtis off his lips and into his mouth. With ... (A.E. Via)

You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next ... (Joe Abercrombie)

Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you ... (Reza Aslan)

Between 1885 and 1908 the pursuit of growth and profits cost the lives of 6 million individuals (at least 20 per cent of the Congo's population). ... (Yuval Noah Harari)

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me. ... (Arundhati Roy)

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. ... (Fiona Apple)

I call him Alshon. He calls me Demaryius Thomas. ... (Brandon Marshall)

Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors. ... (Zelda Fitzgerald)

I would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay ... (Lisa See)

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for ... (Danica McKellar)

If this were a book written to entertain small children, you would know what would happen next. With the villain's identity and evil plans exposed, the police would arrive on ... (Lemony Snicket)

The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I realized it was about this ... (Takeshi Kitano)

Thank you," she said. He looked bemused. "For what?" "For everything. For being amazing in bed and endlessly patient, for sacrificing the Savage Club for me and bringing me all ... (Sarah Mayberry)

If girls can be anything, let them be anything. This is a book for any girl who ever felt she didn't fit in. You are not alone. You come from ... (Jason Porath)

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them ... (Ban Ki-moon)