FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough ... (John Lubbock)

I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not ... (Marcus Mumford)

Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of ... (Rabindranath Tagore)

Ultimately, Roger learned only of the encounter with the urban bees. The boy remained thoroughly fascinated by what he heard nonetheless, his blue-eyed stare never once straying from Holmes; his ... (Mitch Cullin)

You know that feeling deep in your tummy where you just don't feel comfy and you feel sad and sort of want to cry but not about anything specific. It's ... (Unklnown)

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind. ... (Marcus Aurelius)

One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The ... (Susan Ee)

You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent ... (Grace Slick)

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on. ... (Marshall McLuhan)

If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just pieces. Like a germ of an idea for this, and a germ ... (Jennifer Niven)

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person ... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order ... (Phyllis A. Whitney)

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light ... (Lady Gaga)

I will love with all my soul. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after ... (Mila Kunis)

Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for ... (Charles Dickens)

I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a ... (Ian McLagan)

The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated ... (Andre Maurois)

I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece. ... (Douglas Preston)

Where's the truth?" he asked quietly. "What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, ... (Walter M. Miller Jr.)

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. ... (Umberto Eco)

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to ... (Margaret Atwood)

And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the senses to reach the soul, did it not also stand to ... (Paul Auster)

This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest - that it is there for everyone to see, if only he wants to ... (Karl Popper)

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful. ... (Kelly Braffet)

I don't believe that God is a fussy faultfinder in dealing with theological ideas. He who provides forgiveness for a sinful life will also surely be a generous judge of ... (Helmut Thielicke)

Work is a shit way to spend your time and everyone knows it. ... (Stephen May)

She realized he wasn't listening to music and gave him a curious look of amusement as she picked up the cover to an audio book. 'What To Expect When You're ... (E. Jamie)

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the ... (Albert Camus)

Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted ... (Arthur W. Pink)

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples ... (Cordelia Fine)