FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Meeting your best friends in college was dangerous, if only because college was the great leveler. Everyone in college lives like a college student. Nobody necessarily knows who's on financial ... (Jessica Winter)

Mick required far less hand-holding than Michael. Signing the Stones, though, had required a full frontal assault worthy of General Patton, one of my heroes. The final battle exploded at ... (Walter Yetnikoff)

It's true that we are free to do whatever we want, even go to France on a whim. We can make any choice we want. We can do anything we ... (Maureen F. McHugh)

You don't understand," Mairelon said dully. "Kim doesn't want to marry a toff." Was that what was bothering him? "Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nod cocks!" Kim ... (Patricia C. Wrede)

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software. ... (Meg Rosoff)

What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth ... (George r r martin)

A year on, Eleanor remained haunted by what happened to her. She still had no idea where the bacteria came from. Perhaps the foot soak and pedicure she had gotten ... (Atul Gawande)

I had a three year relationship end. Ever have somebody just freak out on you in a relationship? Things are going great. After three years she wants to run out ... (Jim Norton)

We've told men for so long that we're equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now they're afraid to offer in ... (Alexandra Potter)

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect. ... (Bernie Mac)

At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor. ... (Mike Barnicle)

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment. ... (Marco Brambilla)

That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said. I told you, they age slower out here. It's all the fresh California air," Val replied. Yes, because ... (Julie James)

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

His fingers gouged into my leg harder. "My sister was in that cafeteria," he said. "She saw her friends die, thanks to you and that puke boyfriend of yours. She ... (Jennifer Brown)

People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, ... (Robert Anton Wilson)

I prefer to live in the South but on my own terms. It takes some doing to insert oneself in such a way as not to succumb to the ghosts ... (Walker Percy)

A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The ... (Nancy Birdsall)

I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say," I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or ... (Julia J. Gibbs)

We can't stay in Afghanistan forever. ... (James F. Amos)

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. ... (William Carlos Williams)

I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put ... (Billy Collins)

He wasn't tough. A tough man has to win and lose. He has to come up after being knocked down, he has to have taken a few beatings, and know ... (Louis L'Amour)

Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of ... (Edmund White)

I've defined myself, privately and publicly, by my brief, intense years as an athlete, a swimmer. I practices five or six hours a day, six days a week, eating and ... (Leanne Shapton)

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. ... (Confucius)

They're not going to arrest you,' Skulduggery said as they walked through the door. 'They might glare at you and say angry words, but they won't arrest you. Well, they ... (Derek Landy)

Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if ... (Jim Elliot)

Oh, Sir, don't you know that on the edge of fear is where trust grows? ... (Ella Dominguez)

And I said, "You love me?" Rhys nodded. And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he'd done for me. For what I ... (Sarah J. Maas)