FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a ... (Paul Ekman)

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity. ... (Debasish Mridha)

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of a child on an airplane, the way the ... (Anne Jackson)

My greatest inspiration ... is my mum, who had a baby at the age of 42 and is still so fit, independent and beautiful. ... (Jaime Winstone)

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters. ... (Ridley Scott)

The male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state as a great leader and co-creator. ... (Bryant McGill)

Life is tough, then you die. The sooner you accept that and move on with your life, the better off you'll be. ... (Michael Murphy)

It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ... (Ayn Rand)

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is ... (Lin Yutang)

I want a hero. A big strong, handsome prince to come rescue me from my miserable life. But since one has not arrived, I must rescue myself. -Daisy ... (Jessica Clare)

I was shameless in my supermarket-shelf mass-market taste. I loved King, Evanovich, Grisham and Brown. I won't lie; the oficial-looking filing cabinet in the corner is actually stuffed full of ... (Molly Harper)

Many people, after spending a long weekend being stealthily seduced by this grand dame of the South, mistakenly think that they have gotten to know her: they believe (in error) ... (James Caskey)

When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the ... (Mark Lawrence)

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of ... (John Milton)

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they ... (Meg Rosoff)

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine ... (Pushpa Rana)

We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a ... (Vera Wang)

I didn't know his age or how he liked his tea, I was wearing a terrible coat and I was drunk as a stoat - but this moment felt like ... (Lucy Robinson)

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last. ... (Leo Durocher)

Correct me if I'm wrong," he said, "but I was under the impression that you weren't looking for anything more than a short-term arrangement either, Miss Free Spirit." She flushed. ... (Jayne Ann Krentz)

I love my children unconditionally. ... (Gary Kemp)

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. ... (Harlan Ellison)

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be. ... (Julian Assange)

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for ... (Abigail Adams)

Yes," said Cooley. "That is the question, as the Bard might say." "The Bard?" "What's so funny?" said Cooley. "Nothing, sir," I said. "I just didn't know people still used ... (Sam Lipsyte)

Everyone who goes after a dream is a competitor, and their goal is the win. Anyone who chooses to work together with others toward the pursuit of a common goal ... (Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld)

My favorite app is 'StumbleUpon,' because it just gives you interesting things that are sometimes exactly the stuff I'm interested in and sometimes just silly and funny. ... (Christine Quinn)

Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life. ... (Herbert M. Shelton)

Walt had a way of communicating that was just magical," composer Richard Sherman told me. "Simple, but magical. He would give you a challenge and say, 'I know you can ... (Pat Williams)

When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to ... (Rick Riordan)

She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ... (Atticus Poetry)

America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and in his heart, as in the ... (Jon Meacham)

How English you are, Basil! If one puts forward an idea to a real Englishman, - always a rash thing to do, - he never dreams of considering whether the ... (Oscar Wilde)

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach. ... (Lance Loud)

There is tragedy all around us, we pick up pieces, we find our feet and before long another turn of events stare us in the eyes; like we're some kind ... (Nikki Rowe)

I lost myself immediately in one of the books, only emerging when the phone rang. "Dashiell?" my father intoned. As if someone else with my voice might be answering the ... (Rachel Cohn)

Anguish. German soldiers--with their steel helmets and their death's-head emblem. Still, our first impression of the Germans were rather reassuring. The officers were billeted in private homes, even in Jewish ... (Eli Wiesel)

He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they ... (Elmore Leonard)

No, take more! What may be sworn by, both divine and human, Seal what I end withal! This double worship, Where [one] part does disdain with cause, the other Insult ... (William Shakespeare)

I'm pretty sure that my Restless Leg Syndrome is simply caused my body just fighting the urge to RUN AWAY! ... (Tanya Masse)

I like myself. Not once did I ever hate myself. My basic, but high specs; my decent face; and my pessimistic, but realistic thinking; I didn't hate any single one ... (Wataru Watari)

Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them. ... (Nikki Rowe)

The whirlwind of life It was true. Sometimes life was like that, a wonderful whirlwind that fills us with joy, like a ride on a merry-go-round when we are children. ... (Guillaume Musso)

Let me rephrase," he added, sharper than barbed steel. "I'm coming with you." "Excuse me?" Solara came to a sudden stop, forcing him to do the same. "You'll go wherever ... (Melissa Landers)

I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life ... (Rachel McAdams)

Love is private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening side. I think of the Luna card in the Tarot deck: some strange, huge crustacean, its armor ... (Tom Robbins)

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)

And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so ... (Richard Branson)

The spicy sweet fragrance of the large full blooms, which rambled over the side and top of an arched metal framework, welcomed them as they walked beneath them. Shafts of ... (Ellen Read)

We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first. ... (Tan Twan Eng)

Hockey and cooking are similar in so many ways, especially if you are a player-coach, the guy in charge on the ice, a role I would closely relate to that ... (Chris Hill)

They say I am a brave girl I'm a hailstorm for the rain I'm a volcano for the mountain I'm a diamond for the stone And I wonder if I ... (Emma Brynstein)

I know I looked skinnier in The House Bunny, but thanks to my diet of beer and doughnuts, I'm back to my fightin' weight!' ... (Anna Faris)

On your birthday ... Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday. ... (Margaret Jones)

Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They're so ... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. ... (Ann Demeulemeester)

I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really ... (Chris Bauer)

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to ... (Jill Soloway)

So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment? ... (Matt Lauer)

It is for that moment when I might steady you so you don't fall, I have added my blood to an inkwell. Indelible now will be my mark on history's ... (Rumi)