FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a YA heroine ... (Celine Kiernan)

For most of us a job is bread and butter and for most of others its just bread and butter. ... (Aniruddha Sastikar)

It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. ... (Ahdaf Soueif)

The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system ... (Chris Hayes)

No," he says exasperated. "I want to be way more than friends. I want to be best friends, the kind that tell each other everything, the kind that fuck each ... (Meghan Quinn)

So what? You act all mysterious to seem more interesting?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're always wandering off or running away," he said. "But you're a lot more interesting ... (Jennifer E. Smith)

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the ... (Brendan Fraser)

I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you the best thing a patriotic ... (Andy Rooney)

If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim. ... (Cassandra Clare)

I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on ... (Maria Popova)

Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate. ... (Monica O Montgomery)

Loyalty is earned with friendliness, responsiveness, ease of doing business, fair value, and the good feeling customers get when they call you, visit you, or interact with you. ... (Jeffrey Gitomer)

The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage ... (Tracy McMillan)

Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself ... (George Lucas)

God gave Adam and Eve that free will and choice. He gave them one warning: eat of any tree that is here, including the wonderful tree of life, but don't ... (Dee Henderson)

You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take eighty years ... (Melina Marchetta)

He is a sodomite, and my sister is a whore, and perhaps a poisoner, and I am a whore. My uncle has been the falsest of friends, my father a ... (Philippa Gregory)

This is "Your Guardian Angel," originally by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. ... (S.L. Jennings)

In my wide travels across the world and my meetings with various heads of states, be that Africa or South Asia, Singapore or in high level meetings in the U.S., ... (Sunil Mittal)

But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The poem had been written by an adult, not ... (Jincy Willett)

One of the functions of all my novels is to prove that the novel in general does not exist. ... (Vladimir Nabokov)

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected. ... (Lil' Mama)

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers. ... (Jason Calacanis)

I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, ... (Mitch Albom)

Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain ... (James Ellis)

I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, ... (Daniel J. Rice)

Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time and reflecting on the food, having ... (Grant Achatz)

Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore. ... (N.D. Jones)

Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to. ... (Tina McElroy Ansa)

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love. ... (Claude Debussy)