FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. ... (Emil Nolde)

There were orchids for sale, for one and two and three and five hundred dollars, a madhouse of orchids in every color, in every shape, with wide leaves and skinny ... (Susan Orlean)

Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that ... (Jerry Bridges)

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever ... (Abraham Lincoln)

I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me. ... (Audrey Niffenegger)

Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days. ... (Maud Welzen)

Our host drifted away, and Vidia and I continued chatting about this and that. Swift judgments came down. The simplicity in Hemingway was "bogus" and nothing, Vidia said, like his ... (Teju Cole)

Why are you knocking at every door ? Go, knock at the door of your own heart. ... (Rumi)

The Dead travel fast. ... (Bram Stoker)

Terry Pratchett lives in England, an island off the coast of France, where he spends his time writing Discworld novels in accordance with the Very String Anthropic Principle, which holds ... (Terry Pratchett)

It's not often that you see a smile on the face of the Viper, but it actually looks good on there. ... (Jerry Lawler)

He'd set down his drink and leaned in. "Fine. You want me to elaborate, I will. Here's the deal: I'm a guy. Generally speaking, we're pretty simple folk. I know ... (Julie James)

He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like ... (Christopher Bram)

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions ... (Jane Addams)

We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as ... (Jerry Jones)

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal ... (Michael Franti)

Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry. ... (Tena Desae)

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain. ... (Tove Lo)

Whilst Man, however well-behaved, At best is but a monkey shaved! ... (Charles Darwin)

The issue is not answering questions, but leaving discussions open. Not in the sense that probably one day you are going to have an answer or you are not going ... (Paulo Coelho)

Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself. ... (Matthew Arnold)

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions. ... (Michael Sandel)

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible. ... (Nicholas Sparks)

And Hortensio falls asleep happily and starts snoring, although nobody could hear him snoring, because nobody can hear the noises that snails make, all around the world. ... (Elena D. Calin)

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves. ... (James Frey)

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ... (Bertrand Russell)

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. ... (Josh Billings)

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work ... (Zachary Quinto)

Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you. ... (Bill Linderman)

Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage. ... (Len Elmore)