FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: ... (N.K. Jemisin)

With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and ... (Athenagoras of Athens)

The years between Roger Bacon's birth, in 1220, and Uthred's death, in 1370, are considered the final flowering of the Middle Ages. They were followed by a longer, grimmer period ... (Michael Wolfe)

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. ... (Ransom Riggs)

That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return. ... (Sarah Fuller Flower Adams)

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it. ... (Paul Greengrass)

That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under ... (Carol Rifka Brunt)

I want to drop to all fours and bay like a wild thing drunk on being hungry and strong, a beast that could fuck for days without cease if I ... (Karen Marie Moning)

Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's ... (Martin Samuel)

I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You ... (Ian Beattie)

Shadows stretched from one side of the street to the other, reaching up the walls like fingers as the street lamps came on. In the north, a bank of dark ... (Danika Stone)

Make sure you have an edge. Know what your edge is. And have rigid risk control rules. ... (Monroe Trout)

LOVE OF THE GOD" "Love has power, power of Devine It fills meaning of one life, Love is the gift, Gift that gets of fortune, Rather you aren't going for, ... (Samar Sudha)

I believe in God. Or some great power beyond what we can imagine. But I think religion is a manmade prison. ... (Karina Halle)

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him. ... (E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax)

He remembered Mrs. Dews' light brown eyes last night. The way they'd closed in bliss when he'd fed her the plum tart ... Her emotion was foreign, wild and exciting, ... (Elizabeth Hoyt)

I love you," I said, gripping the back of her neck and bringing her mouth to mine. My hand trailed down her side, naked and smooth and covered in goose ... (Christina Lauren)

Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to. ... (Django Wexler)

I'd been beguiled by the new technology - a toddler crawling toward a gun. ... (Jon Ronson)

I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my ... (Alan Bradley)

Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we ... (Melody Beattie)

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could ... (James Patterson)

It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the ... (Steve Pavlina)

Maybe part of passing that test was a marker for where I've been, but it feels more like a pointer for something I'll never reach ... (Nancy E. Turner)

Are we just going to keep having sex so we can avoid talking about what we need to talk about?" Prophet pulled back and looked between Tom's legs. "What?" "Just ... (S.E. Jakes)

Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to ... (Zachary Schomburg)

But the guy sitting at the table next to me who'd been imagining killing his wife and was now imagining seducing me wasn't the problem. No, it was the guy ... (Lori Brighton)

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book gets out ... (Cassandra Clare)

After my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one ... (David Fairchild)

I was the dhampir daughter of the family patriarch, the little known stain on an otherwise immaculate record. Louis-Cesare, on the other hand, was vamp royalty. The only Child of ... (Karen Chance)