FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I don't have any interest in helping you keep your job," I say, shifting my weight onto my heels, suddenly tired and resigned. "But I promise to do what I ... (Kyra Davis)

One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by the ethics of historic preservation, the other being ... (Winy Maas)

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the ... (James Otis)

Humanity does not gradually progress from combat to combat until it arrives at universal reciprocity, where the rule of law finally replaces warfare; humanity installs each of its violences in ... (Michel Foucault)

I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest ... (Jim Gaffigan)

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing ... (Melissa Harris-Perry)

Here's the thing about New York, the thing I love most: there is no such substance as silence. If you ever stop talking, and he stops talking, the city takes ... (Beatriz Williams)

People seem weak, but they're strong. They seem strong, but they're weak. No matter how much you cry, you still have to sleep. And you even get hungry. You suddenly ... (Fuyumi Soryo)

I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things are way more dispersed, and way more de-centralised ... (Chris Baio)

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind ... ... (Blaise Pascal)

Get Inspired: I'm continually inspired by Stuart Brown's work on play and Daniel Pink's book A Whole New Mind.4 If you want to learn more about the importance of play ... (Brene Brown)

The room smells of lemon oil, heavy cloth, fading daffodils, the leftover smells of cooking that have made their way from the kitchen or the dining room, and of Serena ... (Margaret Atwood)

I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which you find yourself is actually true- that somehow ... (Marisha Pessl)

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans. ... (Jeff Henderson)

Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a ... (Alison Sweeney)

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

Militant atheists seek to discredit religion based on a highly selective reading of history. There was a time not long ago - just a couple of centuries - when the ... (Bruce Sheiman)

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage. ... (Thierry Mugler)

Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, ... (Pablo Neruda)

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. ... (Nelson Rodrigues)

Damn it. I wilted beside her, all my hopes and dreams of being a pimp dashed against the cruel rocks of reality. And an unwilling ho. ... (Darynda Jones)

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. ... (Robin Williams)

As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this ... (Peter J. Carroll)

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession ... (Daniel Webster)

I watched 'The Neighbors' when it first came on, and I thought it was hysterical. And every time I think something just tickles my funny bone, I call my agent ... (Rhea Perlman)

I feel like every day of my life is a funny wardrobe malfunction! ... (Nikki Reed)

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man ... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay ... (Adrien Brody)

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't ... (Anna Quindlen)

Your day usually follows the direction of the corners of your mouth. So SMILE. ... (Gregory Dickow)

It twists my gut, and I feel pretty damn stupid for thinking I could bring a glock to a dragon fight. ... (Wolf Specter)