FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with ... (Melissa Leo)

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful many more. ... (Bjarne Stroustrup)

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike. ... (Heather O'Rourke)

A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart ... (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The only thing that matters is when the team wins. ... (Jorge Posada)

Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically ... (Shakti Gawain)

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my ... (Simon Van Booy)

Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only ... (George Saunders)

Everything we go through, the good and the bad, make us who we are; why would I want to be anyone else? ... (P.A. Minyard)

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on ... (Elie Wiesel)

I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't ... (Ted Sarandos)

To them that long for the presence of the living God, the thought of Him is sweetest itself: but there is no satiety, rather an ever-increasing appetite... ... (Bernard of Clairvaux)

And yet as my eyes turned to Stephen facing the sunrise from Simon in the darkness of my mind, it was as if Simon had been the living face and ... (Dodie Smith)

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have faith enough to seek guidance and authority from ... (Iyanla Vanzant)

I was an awful, awful person. Yup. My world was full of colour. Red for want. Yellow for shame. Green for jealousy. ... (Samantha Young)

EHMs provide favors. These take the form of loans to develop infrastructure - electric generating plants, highways, ports, airports, or industrial parks. A condition of such loans is that engineering ... (John Perkins)

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but ... (John F. Kennedy)

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. ... (Douglas Brinkley)

Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it - and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it - you know the ... (Noah Hawley)

In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice. ... (Dana Gould)

Sometimes the best way to come close is by staying away. ... (Karan Singh Surana)

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. ... (E. M. Forster)

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American ... (for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening ... (Linda Leaming)

I love producing children. It's fun! I don't like taking care of children, but I love producing children. ... (Donald Trump)

Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to ... (Stephen Covey)

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. ... (Charles Spurgeon)

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers. ... (Mallory Ortberg)

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling. ... (Haruki Murakami)

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't. ... (Dr. Seuss)

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! ... (Bertha von Suttner)

Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be ... (Bryan Fischer)

I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down. ... (Ricardo Antonio Chavira)

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into. ... (Tuesday Weld)

The truth is, we don't know what's going to happen - we just think we do. Often we make a big deal out of something. We blow up scenarios in ... (Richard Carlson)

The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of disease, but with medical intervention ... (Steve Solomon)

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back. ... (Hillary Clinton)

I have one aim - the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing. ... (Aubrey Beardsley)

Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. ... (Carol Rifka Brunt)

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for ... (Lois Lowry)

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor. ... (John Galt)

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger, and danger has become so rare in modern life. ... (Oscar Wilde)

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. ... (Dave Eggers)

King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades. ... (George W. Bush)

Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, ... (Paul Brunton)

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it. ... (Carlos Castaneda)

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. ... (Rick Warren)

Tomorrow always comes with a new hope for a new beginning. After all, it is a new day! ... (Debasish Mridha)

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are ... (George Orwell)

The insolence of office. ... (William Shakespeare)

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first ... (Joe Biden)

My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense. ... (Paula Creamer)

Throughout the empire, it was whispered that although the husband waded through mud, the wife walked upon water. She, it was said, was graced with a gentle touch which tamed ... (A.H. Septimius)

When you left, I somehow couldn't be myself, ... (Paulo Coelho)

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war. ... (Colin Powell)

People just ... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I ... (Bret Easton Ellis)

It was like watching a movie being played on the blank screen of his mind; the only difference was that he did not get bored, no matter how many times ... (Faraaz Kazi)

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to ... (Lesley Manville)

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many. ... (Ben Fountain)

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day ... (Jason Kidd)