FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Once I started seeing the college clinic psychiatrist, he pulled out my blood and showed me what was really in it, glanced at each trace mineral in the lab results, ... (Elissa Washuta)

Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' ... (Melina Marchetta)

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ... (Robert Frost)

Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean The ... (A.E. Housman)

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and ... (Mark Mothersbaugh)

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different? ... (Amy L. Orr)

Sociology should ... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action. ... (Talcott Parsons)

Let us sleep, he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of ... (Ernest Hemingway,)

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't ... (Guy Finley)

So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence and, indirectly, support the Western assertion ... (Muhammad Asad)

For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority ... (John C. Maxwell)

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning. ... (Alex O'Loughlin)

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair ... (Jamaica Kincaid)

Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the ... (Christian de Duve)

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; ... (Henri J.M. Nouwen)

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being. ... (Roger McDonald)

Cassita vulneratus. Raven awoke with a start. ... (Sylvain Reynard)

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what ... (Catherynne M Valente)

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote. ... (Bill Pullman)

Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws. ... (Joseph O'Neill)

But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority ... (Richard Rodriguez)

There is something fluid about [packs] during the course of any individual manifestation. [p. 127] ... (Elias Canetti)

So many people have asked me how I could possibly be a role model and dress like a tramp and get implants ... all I have to say is that ... (Britney Spears)

In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the rest had gone mad. ... (Laura Hillenbrand)

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a ... (Bobby Vinton)

Why should existence be arranged so that our alienation from God is a given and we must forever fight our way not simply toward what he is but toward the ... (Christian Wiman)

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. ... (Aldous Huxley)

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about. ... (Carson McCullers)

Olly's glowing; if he was six inches tall and fluffy, Toys R Us would ship him by the thousands. ... (David Mitchell)

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ... (Edith Wharton)