FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face ... (Kavita Ramdas)

Negative habits eat you up. They're the biggest roadblocks that prevent you from realising your fullest potential; and the very first step towards crafting real change is to become aware ... (Manprit Kaur)

During the 1919 solar eclipse, people go out to measure the positions of the stars and they find exactly what Einstein predicted. Einstein gets a telegram saying this, and somebody ... (Rivka Galchen)

If he was a ghost in the life he remembered, Jeff thought, he was also a ghost in his present life, just the same way. Except, in all the fourteen ... (Cynthia Voigt)

I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus. ... (David Chang)

It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I ... (Noam Chomsky)

Gabriel: This is a *travesty* of justice. Michael: Justice is my father's prerogative. The rest of us ... Lucifer: The rest of us can only do what we think is ... (Mike Carey)

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot ... well it's not like people will forget you, but ... (Brian Boitano)

The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the ... (R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz)

My mother said, "Arturo, stop that. Your sister's tired." "Oh Holy Ghost, Oh Holy inflated triple ego, get us out of the depression. Elect Roosevelt. Keep us on the gold ... (John Fante)

The real reason a husband and wife always fight is because they always focus on the ugliness in each other and have forgotten to focus on the beauties that attracted ... (Debasish Mridha)

I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm. ... (Paul Sorvino)

Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap. ... (Auliq Ice)

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off! ... (Joel McHale)

Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to ... (Jane Addams)

When I was twenty, in the summer between my sophomore and junior years in college, I fell head over heels for a barista at my local coffee shop. His name ... (Katie Heaney)

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search ... (Marguerite Duras)

Whatever I think or feel inevitably turns into a form of inertia. Thought, which for other people is a compass to guide action, is for me its microscope, making me ... (Fernando Pessoa)

Marinus is leaning on the railing. "Warehouse number six needs rebuilding; there's a big hole in the seawall behind the guild; Constable Kosugi shall probably" from Seawall Lane comes an ... (David Mitchell)

The Frankenstein myth confronts Homo Sapiens with the fact that the last days are fast approaching. Unless some nuclear or ecological catastrophe intervenes, so goes the story, the pace of ... (Yuval Noah Harari)

I mean, we're talking about chocolate, for chrissake! Chocolate's wonderful! Everyone loves it! Look at me, I'm part German! That makes me a kraut! Do you know what kraut is? ... (Jon Sindell)

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music. ... (Billie Joe Armstrong)

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker. ... (D.L. Moody)

I lit the candles and said out loud, "what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?" And it was ... (Paula Heller Garland)

Like what you see?" Prophet asked, his voice a quiet yet dangerous rumble, heavily laced with sarcasm. Even so, Tom answered him seriously. "Yes." "That's because you're seeing two of ... (S.E. Jakes)

If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him. ... (Warren Farrell)

When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked. ... (Afrojack)

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have. ... (Chevy Chase)

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap ... ... (Hilary Mantel)

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed. ... (Rick Perlstein)