FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In all things there is beauty. In the glint of dew clinging to the strands of a spider's web; in the way the setting sun winks off shards of broken ... (Marta Curti)

Bodily delight is a sense experience, just like pure seeing or the pure feeling with which a lovely fruit fills the tongue; it is a great boundless experience which is ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room ... (Maggie Stiefvater)

Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An older brother is both authority and ... (Ron Currie Jr.)

Everyone should wake up and have a fresh-squeezed orange every day. By having a fresh glass of orange juice with American oranges, you are supporting the local economy, you have ... (Jose Andres)

Life Is Too Short--So Kiss Slowly, Laugh Insanely, Love Truly, And Live With Passion. ... (Andy Vogt)

You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal ... (Kate Bornstein)

You have to look for a unique quality in that person and it's not just always physical. I don't think models are great models because of their face or their ... (Michael Flutie)

Some of the most beautiful and rewarding relationships come from mutual respect that eventually burned into fervent passion. Don't take for granted the friendship you are building at the moment, ... (Osayi Emokpae Lasisi)

We are participatory beings who inhabit a participatory reality, seeking relationships that enhance our sense of what it means to be alive. In terms of dharma practice, a true friend ... (Stephen Batchelor)

She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream. ... (S.A. Huchton)

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. ... (Chris Hedges)

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time. ... (Jack McCollough)

When you have butterflies and you're feeling anxious and you have anxiety or are nervous, that's when you're most powerful... A lot of people, instead of honing this power and ... (Jon Jones)

I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next look is, whether it's big blonde hair and ... (Alek Wek)

Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There's a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh ... (Sufe Bradshaw)

I'm missing my baby's first swim lesson. If I am at my daughter's debut in her school musical, I am missing Sandra Oh's last scene ever being filmed at Grey's ... (Shonda Rhimes)

Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that ... (Amber Benson)

If you want to be a poet, there is no greater mistake you could make than to publish whatever work you have as soon as you can. Why? Well because ... (Martijn Benders)

The small Chinese man sank onto the plush leather sofa. He sank so low on the large brown sofa, it looked like it would swallow him whole. He sat, clutching ... (Marko Phiri)

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the ... (Joseph Stefano)

In the animated Dreamworks movie Prince of Egypt the ancient Egyptians are drawn to appear more Arab than African. But the ancient Egyptians came originally from Africa's interior to the ... (Randall Robinson)

The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop ... (Tony Horwitz)

Found, except for X. I and U are used for J and V. There was no rune for Q (use CW); nor for Z (the dwarf-rune may be used if ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence ... (Leander Paes)

Congratulations to your mom and dad for birth of a sweet child! Sorry that I couldn't wish them when you were born. ... (Hasil Paudyal)

Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going. ... (Joe Plumeri)

It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt It was not a ghastly sense of loss that froze me. I had taught myself ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of ... (Sam Wyly)

Isn't God the one who urges us to "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful ... (Charles R. Swindoll)

Were you acquainted with me, you would know that my failings are equal to my victories. On my own, I am no more than a pauper. It is the Prince ... (Chuck Black)

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience. ... (Tom Clancy)

A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of ... (Kenwa Mabuni)

9/11/01 Gina: Especially today, with the enormity of current events, I want to convey to you again, how much you mean to me and how proud I am to be ... (Michael Spehn)

I thought you said something about a wolf' I began. 'Yes. That black beast that gnaws at my bones whenever he gets a chance. He loiters in corners and behind ... (Diane Setterfield)

In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each ... (Kiera Cass)

THE BLUE DRESS Her blue dress is a silk train is a river is water seeps into the cobblestone steps of my sleep, is still raining is monsoon brocade, is ... (Saeed Jones)

A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day. ... (Clinton Kelly)

I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto. ... (E.L. James)

With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's ... (Jeff Ross)

As Sondheim said, Nice is different than good. Do you need to do whatever you're told to be a nice person? Maybe. Do you need to do whatever you're told ... (Anna Kendrick)

I'm addicted to exercise. I love going to the gym, but my absolute favorite is hiking in L.A., particularly Runyon Canyon. It's become my mental and physical salvation. ... (Jonathan Keltz)

When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was ... (Stephen Hawking)

More than once, while staring at the wall, I'd thought of Our Lady. I wanted to talk to her, to say, Where do I go from here? But when I'd ... (Sue Monk Kidd)

I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they ... (Steve Largent)

I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could ... (Iman)

Among other reasons which will readily suggest themselves, one alone will suffice. Every Christian knows, experimentally, that the Bible is the Word of God. When a sinner becomes seriously concerned ... (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking ... (Arthur Balfour)

Telling me I'm pretty is nice and all, but if you really want to make my day, tell me I inspired you to read a book. Say you picked up ... (J.M. Richards)

No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile - not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents, or siblings. No one leaves his ... (Paulo Freire)

I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it stirs and changes I see ... (John O'Donohue)

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship. ... (Thomas Berry)

No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough [great ... (J.R. Miller)

Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very ... (Osho)

I don't want my life to not be the way I expected. I may not be scared of crowds. Or the dark. Or small spaces. But I am afraid. I ... (Emily Trunko)

In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth ... (bell hooks)

Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best ... (Willis Regier)

And more than that, Bodee left me with hope. For love. For wanting someone to touch me again and to lie with me without fear as my first response. Because ... (Courtney C. Stevens)

I love it when you talk dirty physics. ... (Rachel Caine)

I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in jail more than once and ... (Raymond Chandler)