FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The inability of Americans to value intellect is, to me, maddening. If someone possesses physical beauty they will not be cloistered or hidden in dark shadows. No, they are expected ... (Stuart Rojstaczer)

I had grown up in a house with a fence around it, and in this fence was a white smooth wooden gate, two holes bored round and low together so ... (Richard Bach)

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons. ... (Gordon Pirie)

As Julia scanned the crowd, one face stood out. A young-looking, fair-haired man with strange gray eyes stared unblinkingly in her direction, his expression one of intense curiosity. ... (Sylvain Reynard)

I often would think about how we have built our society, and when you describe it out loud, it sounds rather insane. The idea of being funnelled through a conventional ... (Josh Langley)

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years. ... (Keegan Allen)

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals ... (Terry Pratchett)

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes ... (Christopher Fowler)

The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only with incessant labor ... (Charles Spurgeon)

Are you okay?" I sighed,my sodden coat chilling me to the bone. "Peachy.Made a new friend." He pulled me up by the hand,unzipping my coat and yanking it off me. ... (Kiersten White)

We want our delusions and will violently defend these when confronted. We want to believe that the job that is slowly choking us is good, because the effort it would ... (Thomm Quackenbush)

Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors ... (Don DeLillo)

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace. ... (Pope Paul VI)

Happiness comes when you are doing something because you really love to do it, and not because it gives you riches or makes you a prominent person. ... (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

I didn't have a solid opinion on the possibility of anyone's having psychic abilities or a fluency in reading auras, nor did I want to form an opinion about these ... (Catherine Lacey)

Just bring in the wood before she asks for it, and bring her a flower every time you come back from the field. If it's cold put a shawl around ... (Louis de Bernieres)

In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have ... (Robert M. Gates)

How were they to square the tremendous wealth they accrued with their image of themselves as frugal and virtuous? Easy: just argue that commerce was itself virtuous. To be rich ... (Bee Wilson)

Let your soul be washed by the waves of love to feel the joy of life. ... (Debasish Mridha)

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society. ... (Jack Abbott)

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and ... (Diane Sawyer)

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering ... (Saint Ignatius)

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life ... (Sachin Tendulkar)

She wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson ... " "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what ... (Truman Capote)

I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants. ... (Billy Joel)

Men are wimps . Why do you think women have the babies? ... (Wendy Mass)

The End of the Raven On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slanting I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for. Tipsy and ... (Henry N. Beard)

If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that ... (Jeremy Denk)

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense ... (Errol Flynn)

Though spiritual truth is inscrutable, still we all benefit from it through the embodiment of form. Just as you see the changes brought by the stars, moon and sun turning ... (Rumi)