FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow. "You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the ... (L. Frank Baum)

It works because the principle of personal space is always the same, whether you're fending off an elemental or someone's bad mood. It's a force field around yourself, and as ... (Jeanette Winterson)

All the faces on the photographs have changed, To not confuse it all, the names remain the same ... (Antimatter)

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology. ... (Warren Farrell)

If I could be God for a day, I would instantly replace July and August with two Septembers so the twelve months of the new calendar year would consist of ... (Lionel Fisher)

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets. ... (Eleanor Robson Belmont)

Anyone who's ever flown London to Sydney, seated next to or anywhere in the proximity of a fussy baby, you'll no doubt fall right into the swing of things in ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

Life is a blast when you know what you're doin', Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined. Life is a thrill when your skill is developed, ... (Del tha Funkee Homosapien)

God is God of history and of nations. Also of nature. Originally Yahweh was probably a volcanic deity. But he periodically enters history, the best example being when he intervened ... (Philip K. Dick)

One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's ... (Sandra Cisneros)

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ... (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an ... (B.F. Skinner)

The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track. ... (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father ... (Robert Rankin)

He was just drifting off when he heard her soft whisper. "Cooper?" "Still here." Maybe she'd changed her mind about the sheet. The thought made his body twitch. Yeah, she ... (Jill Shalvis)

With each impact you tell me that my body belongs to you; that I am yours to use, yours to punish and yours to screw. Your words are almost as ... (Felicity Brandon)

Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy. ... (Eddie Murphy)

We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be hard enough in this odd world ... (Ronald Knox)

I think when you experience things in your life, dealing with good and bad things, you just become stronger in so many ways. ... (Britney Spears)

Why-why-why! ... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything! ... (Ann Fairbairn)

The day Mother Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? killed Father The Outlaw Josey Wales, they were arguing again about the Pre-Reddening game of Major League Baseball. ... (Nick DiChario)

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of ... (Sherilyn Fenn)

I also realized that in my family drama a very limited number of character traits were available to the players. In my mind, either I could be weak, wimpy, submissive, ... (Mark Sichel)

Do you ever wear leather?" the guy asks. "What?" "Leather. Do you like leather?" "It doesn't exactly wipe me out." "I like to see boys in leather." I look at ... (Eric Bishop-Potter)

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. ... (Rigoberto Gonzalez)

CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS ... (Charles Dickens)

I'm a complete junky for lotions and potions! I love SkinCeuticles Hydrating B5 Gel; it's like a serum and I put it on my face, and immediately I can feel ... (Tamsin Egerton)

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever ... (Alison Rosen)

The best secret of success is to always be ready to find and open the door of opportunity. ... (Debasish Mridha)

Why does turning on a TV these days require three remotes with ninety buttons? Why? ... (Helen Fielding)