FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness. ... (Debasish Mridha)

New Rule: Bring back a little pubic hair. Not a lot, I'm not talking about reviving that 1973 look that said "I'm liberated" and "I'm smuggling a hedgehog."I just want ... (Bill Maher)

There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But ... (Jeremy Stoppelman)

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy. ... (Bennett Cerf)

The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment ... (Myles Munroe)

The God of Imagination lived in fairytales. And the best fairytales made you fall in love. It was while flicking through "Sleeping Beauty" that I met my first love, Ivar. ... (Diriye Osman)

Jivamukti Yoga is a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings. Jivamukti is a Sanskrit word that means to live liberated in joyful, musical harmony with the Earth. The ... (Sharon Gannon)

... when he slipped out of his mother's womb, he was already filled with interior spaces that didn't belong to him, and he can't just look inside to inspect his ... (Jenny Erpenbeck)

In his experience, premonitions of disaster were almost invariably proved false, and the road to Calvary entered on with the very lightest of hearts. MR ... (Pat Barker)

I'm not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking ... (Graham Greene)

Listen to your fear but don't obey it. ... (Seth Godin)

It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French ... (Julian Barnes)

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling ... (Craig Ferguson)

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake. ... (Subhash Chandra)

I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am ... (Joey Comeau)

You cannot miss what you never had, but you can miss forever the man you loved and lost. ... (Laurell K. Hamilton)

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ... (John Herschel)

The world is a den of crazies. ... (Tommaso Campanella)

Well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. ... (Stephen Hawking)

I love a book which never ends in my head, even though- a thousand times, it has been read! ... (Mansi Tejpal)

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. ... (George Jean Nathan)

Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age ... (Edward Gibbon)

Has anyone seen a raving bitch with nice hair? Holly shouted at the bottom of the stairs. Everyone who heard her pointed in a different direction. ... (Nicole Williams)

The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we ... (Merle Shain)

In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among ... (Alfred Doblin)

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay. ... (Clare B. Dunkle)

When they came into their trench he felt small enough. The biggest thing there was the roaring of Death and the smallest thing was a man. Bombs not so far ... (Sebastian Barry)

Yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment ... (Amitav Ghosh)

With two hours until her mother picked her up, Janey was alone, woozy and heart-swollen in the downtown, wandering wet streets that gleamed as you would have them gleam in ... (Wells Tower)

It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five ... (Calvin Johnson)