FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In life we have our trophy people. These are the ones we work hard for, we are proud of. We want to show them off to our family, our friends, ... (Brittany Williams)

Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much nonsense as supposing that a badger, a fox and a wolf could ... (Bernard Cornwell)

There was no reproach either in their faces or in their hearts, only the knowledge that they must die in order that he might remain alive, and that this was ... (George Orwell)

A person's native tongue influences the way he or she perceives music. The same succession of notes may sound different depending on the language the listener learned growing up.12 As ... (Ken Robinson)

Every few years, in the world of sport, someone ascends to the most rarefied of all levels - the one at which it becomes news not when they win, but ... (Richard Williams)

When the world tells us that it is impossible and when the world is falling from underneath us, and we have no where to turn, I feel the safest. For ... (Mordred)

See, Sway, that's what you get for flunking your pilot's test six times ... which I'm pretty sure is a record of some sort. If not for the actual flunking, ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community. ... (Saul Alinsky)

Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you're capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied ... (Tsoknyi Rinpoche)

There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head ... (Bethany Hamilton)

Ramona was willing to talk about anything, now, about things beyond the present moment. Childhoods in El Modena and at the beach. The boats offshore. Their work. The people they ... (Kim Stanley Robinson)

The whole reason I wanted to take Owen to Disney World is that I fear that someday he's going to look through his childhood photo album and wonder why all ... (Sarah Vowell)

One day," I say to him, "you'll realize that Warner is not as crazy as you think he is." "Yeah." Kenji says. "Or maybe one day we'll be able to ... (Tahereh Mafi)

One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The ... (Susan Ee)

And now I tell you this: do not dwell any more on things in the past that you cannot change. Who made man frail of the flesh? Who made our ... (Geraldine Brooks)

I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says ... (Joe Manganiello)

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound? ... (Martin Scorsese)

It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others ... sometimes strangers ... (Sanjo Jendayi)

The job of the skin is to keep it all in. -The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil ... (Stephen Collins)

The truth is women need men, we are neither superior nor inferior to men. We are better at some things and worse at other things. Mature people take the hard ... (Osayi Emokpae Lasisi)

The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink. ... (Amit Abraham)

Jesus Christ ... he was not Omega's son. Was he? "No." V said. "You are not. He just wants to believe you are. And he wants you to think you ... (J.R. Ward)

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness. ... (Albert Einstein)

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to ... (Al Franken)

He lay in bed open-eyed in the dark. There were intestinal moans from his left side, where gas makes a hairpin turn at the splenic flexure. He felt a mass ... (Don DeLillo)

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. ... (Julia Ward Howe)

I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily. ... (Meghan O'Rourke)

Jammed together at lunch. Not a drinker, nevertheless I experience a distinct alteration of consciousness in the presence of others - socially, but even in the classroom or seminar - ... (Joyce Carol Oates)

As I set out each day, I felt like a young child again. One who hadn't yet learned the rules of manmade time; the rules of clocks and calendars, of ... (Alice Steinbach)

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on ... (Langston Hughes)