FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before ... They were earnest and capable; ready ... (Lucy Larcom)

Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, wrote in 2006: International humanitarian law and the Rome statute permit belligerents to carry out proportionate attacks against military objectives, ... (Anonymous)

Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe that the government should focus on ... (Joseph Stiglitz)

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to. It was most ... (Stephanie Ellis)

Naomi's my girlfriend," I say aloud, just to test the words, see how they feel fucking across my lips. Ronnie flips a page in an old copy of Rollin' Strong ... (C.M. Stunich)

The lens is the actor's best critic ... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, ... (Sydney Greenstreet)

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second. ... (Nicholas Sparks)

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. ... (Sister Souljah)

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to ... (Garry Trudeau)

All I know is that while I'm asleep, I'm never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories - and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak ... (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

Do not prove but be yourself. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

*on saying I Love You* When you hear those words, it's like being picked out from the crowd. ... (Philip Siegel)

Don's Mancini father was an advertising executive and I think Don really grew up and all of that stayed in his head. Some of the really great slogans we came ... (David Kirschner)

A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility. ... (Pearl Zhu)

Sneak out. He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, ... (Rachel Vincent)

And marriage, generally, requires an exquisite sense of timing. As a single person, time is relative to one's needs and demands; as a married partner, time is a joint venture ... (Sydney J. Harris)

Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost. Cigarettes. Chewing gum. Strong mint toothpaste. Any food with hard edges or ... (Kevin Brockmeier)

It was one thing to count on someone who was dead and gone, to rely on an idea or a memory, a personal with no real influence over her life ... (Jennifer E. Smith)

The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 ... (Tony Verna)

Otherwise, there were no long goodbyes or emotional scenes. That isn't part of foster care. You just leave and you just die a little bit. Just a little bit because ... (John William Tuohy)

Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. "The proper study of mankind is ... (Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Great Point lighthouse rose at the far end of the barrier beach, a tall white steeple to the sky, with a working light flashing at the top. Here was ... (Nancy Thayer)

I am in communication with almost everybody I've done a story about. I have a fantasy that if I ever strike it rich, I'll have a big party and fly ... (Joshuah Bearman)

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye. ... (Damon Galgut)

I want a love like Johnny and June Rings of fire burnin' with you I wanna walk the line, walk the line Til' the end of time I wanna love, ... (Heidi Newfield)

I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, ... (Gloria Allred)

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out. ... (J.D. Salinger)

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him. ... (George Eliot)

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating. ... (Ray Romano)

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on. ... (John Lewis)