FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The allure of unthinking animal bliss is powerful; it always calls to us, in the same way as the edge of a cliff or the waves of the ocean: Jump. ... (Kevin Hearne)

Let's say that you could carry around a perfect copy of a three-dimensional realization of a Caravaggio painting (or if your tastes are more modern make it a Picasso). You ... (Tyler Cowen)

You invented me. There is no such earthly being, Such an earthly being there could never be. A doctor cannot cure, a poet cannot comfort- A shadowy apparition haunts you ... (Anna Akhmatova)

Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, ... (Joan D. Chittister)

It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a ... (Fedor Bondarchuk)

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine ... (Jessica Pare)

Little bits of Norwegian came to me by a kind of aural osmosis. The most surprising linguistic fact I learned was the impoverishment of that language in swear words. In ... (Richard Fortey)

She remained silent. There was nothing left to say. He'd said it all the night before. He had to end it. He could never leave his wife. And, in fact, ... (Anna McPartlin)

In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success. ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ... (Ted Willams)

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit. ... (Idries Shah)

I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation. ... (Michael Schumacher)

I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the ... (Johnny Marr)

So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! Well, that's a noble thing to do, but a more solemn ... (Ernest Agyemang Yeboah)

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children's hands. ... (Charlotte Mason)

What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The ... (Edward Abbey)

God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour; ... (John Locke)

I am moonlighting for the Buddha. ... (John Burdett)

A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their ... (Kelseyleigh Reber)

But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why I feel so strongly that if you have the opportunity ... (Clinton Kelly)

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And he was about my age, and ... (Al Kooper)

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it? ... (Shannon L. Alder)

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long ... (George Berkeley)

But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how ... (Siri Hustvedt)

She smiled into his mouth. "That was ... wow." "It's always wow. You're wow. I'll never get enough of you, Lydia. Not after ten years in dreams; not after forever ... (Dianna Hardy)

OMG Danita, it's hopeless out here, I moaned while we sat watching her son's football game. I did not want to laugh, but he looked so cute struggling to run ... (LaToya Hankins)

Quentin Crisp said, "To have style is to be yourself but on purpose. ... (Richard Niles)

In the art of love," she said thoughtfully, "you are the best I've ever seen. You are stronger than others, more agile, more willing. Well have you learned my art, ... (Hermann Hesse)

Each loved one went silently down; bubbles bursting leaving behind images they held to stick on the glass of memory. ... (Dr. Prathap Kamath Elegy)

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible. ... (Rabih Alameddine)