FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death. ... (William Shakespeare)

Few people knew the shadowy history of the Special Operations Group that had operated out of Laos, but the numbers said it all: For every American Special Forces soldier that ... (Craig Johnson)

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right. ... (John Lanchester)

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to ... (Salman Rushdie)

I am worried we've run out of words, and am hoping she is just saving them for later. ... (David Levithan)

California is where you get to start over. ... (Tracy Chevalier)

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy ... (Chang-rae Lee)

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me. ... (Hayao Miyazaki)

But we are commanded to recognize his glory, honor his glory, declare his glory, praise his glory, reflect his glory, and live for his glory.7 Why? Because God deserves it! ... (Rick Warren)

With rope-ladders learned I to reach many a window, with nimble legs did I climb high masts: to sit on high masts of perception seemed to me no small bliss; ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

More like a chocolate molten lava cake. A dessert so sinful, so luscious, so filled with inner heat it made a girl want to lick each and every crumb right ... (Julie James)

Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and some people cling longer to life than expected. ... (Markus Zusak)

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - ... (Robert Green Ingersoll)

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. ... (Rachel Maddow)

...not all relationships end in pain. Once in a while it's worth trusting your instincts and taking a risk. ... (Sarah Morgan)

In any case where there is no apparent suspect, the crime lab will produce no valuable evidence. In those cases where a suspect has already confessed and been identified by ... (David Simon)

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious. ... (Meg Cabot)

One god there is, in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees, the whole of him ... (Xenophanes)

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt. ... (Vernor Vinge)

Her house being small. They ain't rich folk, that I know. Rich folk don't try so hard. I'm used to working for young couples, but I spec this is the ... (Kathryn Stockett)

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job. ... (Laurell K. Hamilton)

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research. ... (Sandra Lerner)

People need to have "the dignity of risk" and "the right to fail". ... (Patricia E. Deegan)

Idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose ... (Orson Scott Card)

Memory is not set in stone. Any neuroscientist will tell you that. The more you remember something, especially if it's emotionally charged, the more you will reinforce the pathways connecting ... (Kamal Ravikant)

...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as well) insists upon focusing all attention on the formation of the modern world ... (Peter A. Lorge)

We must start talking differently about poverty and start doing something differently. ... (Gary Haugen)

Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won't be any crapper than I was. Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, ... (Neil Gaiman)

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. ... (L. Ron Hubbard)

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is ... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)