FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means-the best and worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you ... (Jennifer Niven)

Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good ... (John F. Kennedy)

The recent spate of magazines for "parents" (i.e., mothers) bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can (after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant) produce bright, ... (Susan Douglas)

I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people. ... (Tess Gerritsen)

He [Hamlet] sees ghosts and listens to dreams. And when his ghost father tells him that he (Hamlet Senior) was killed by his brother and asks Hamlet Junior to avenge ... (Tina Packer)

When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you ... (Dick Van Dyke)

Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough. ... (Gary Soto)

Is there a reason you are here?" he finally demanded. With complete nonchalance she replied, "Well,I've brought my trunks. I do believe I'm moving in." "The hell you are!" "Nice ... (Johanna Lindsey)

The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry leaves turned as red as ... (Mo Yan)

It rarely snows because Antarctica is a desert. An iceberg means it's tens of millions of years old and has calved from a glacier. (This is why you must love ... (Maria Semple)

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody. ... (Lauryn Hill)

Chasing your tale? Sometimes we relive past accomplishments, failures and or past relationships to the point of exhaustion. When we do this, I liken it to a dog chasing its ... (Jason Versey)

We may get so fixed on one area that we neglect everything else. Life becomes like a tire with a bald spot that is ballooning and ready to blow out. ... (J. Grant Howard)

I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto! all set, ready to rock and roll. I ... (Audrey Niffenegger)

I thought of my mother late that night, after leaving Dorothy, as I followed the moon's path back home across the Moose River. My mother, maybe she was in that ... (Joseph Boyden)

He wasn't pleased with himself for appraising the girl in the tank. He thought of her as half-pretty, the sort of girl one would find modeling for art classes in ... (Warren Ellis)

No dish in history has as many variations, colors, motifs, tastes, textures and subtleties as a dish of pasta. ... (Marc Vetri)

When all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies ... (Gary Busey)

He'd never known it could be like that. Never before found that place where sex was something more, something larger than the act. Where it became about trust, and openness, ... (Lisa Henry)

Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than ... (C.J. Milbrandt)

For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I ... I let it hang ... (Richard Curtis)

Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!' "Oh my God," Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him. ... (Cassandra Clare)

Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'. ... (Marshall B. Rosenberg)

Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, ... (Robert Zubrin)

No, no, no, Landemere. This time I'm putting my foot down. I mean it. Don't think you're going to smear syrup on my beard, as we say in Ramaldah. You're ... (Andrew Ashling)

Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn. The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet ... (George r r martin)

You say I'm a demigod. I say I'm a receipt. My dad crafted a pair of earrings for Freya. She married him for a day. She ... (Rick Riordan)

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense. ... (David Giuntoli)