FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate, painted and gratuitous, hinting that the Creator is ... (Hope Mirrlees)

Mrs. Breedlove considered herself an upright and Christian woman, burdened with a no-count man, whom God wanted her to punish. (Cholly was beyond redemption, of course, and redemption was hardly ... (Toni Morrison)

I'd felt obligated to get Ian a Christmas present. A chunk of coal sat in a brightly wrapped box under the tree, his name written in big bold letters on ... (Jeaniene Frost)

I might be bluffing, you miserable, vomitous mass!" Bran yelled. Oh, for heaven's sake. Really? He's quotin' The Princess Bride? ... (Julie Ann Walker)

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me. ... (Robbie Robertson)

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility. ... (Jonathan Rauch)

I looked around out the driver's window of the hearse. It was Stills! We got out and hugged right there on Sunset Boulevard in the middle of traffic. Horns were ... (Neil Young)

You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning. ... (Mitchell Joachim)

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil. ... (Natan Sharansky)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ... (Aldous Huxley)

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent. ... (Eric Thomas)

Look. I'm your expert consultant for a rather pathetic monetary wage, and under that agreement I have the option of selecting a technical assistant. He's mine." She blew out a ... (J.D. Robb)

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth ... (Jose Antonio Vargas)

Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking turns in orbit around the sun. Each containing ... (Hannah Tinti)

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do. ... (Danger Mouse)

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. ... (Jill McCorkle)

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family. ... (Jenna Morasca)

For over 220 years, Marines have served at the end of America's operational reach - on freedom's far frontiers. These Marines are the backbone of the ARG/MEU (SOC) team, our ... (Tom Clancy)

Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch. ... (Tor Udall)

Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have. ... (John Stoker)

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion. ... (Idries Shah)

I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do ... (Stephen Chbosky)

If you want to hear more like this, just subscribe to my face. ... (Aarti Patel)

I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go ... (Jean-Pascal Tricoire)

We rode through the night. No food offered, no water provided. They raided town after town until we finally reached the shore. There, we were tied to one another and ... (Margeaux Laurent)

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing ... (A.S. Byatt)

I started to turn my life around for the better and try to instil a bit of stability and balance back in to it and take a back seat to ... (Stephen Richards)

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art. ... (Caio Fonseca)

New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a black president, something no other democracy ... (Bill Maher)

Civility does not ... mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good. ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt ... (Max F. Perutz)

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality. ... (D. Anne Paris)

To achieve sustained high returns on capital requires possessing features that protect returns from competition; namely, competitive advantages. Identifying what these competitive advantages are and understanding their sustainability is an ... (Lawrence A. Cunningham)

The process is about leadership and about taking people to places that they cannot get to on their own, while they are still feeling comfortably in control of a buying ... (Michelle Moore)

I'm of the opinion that many Christians are in deep denial about the reality of there being 'real' Evil in this world. Evil that cannot be reasoned with; is reprobate, ... (R. Alan Woods)

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and ... (Anne Perry)

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness. ... (David Nicholls)

You love me?" He just looked at me for a moment. And then he reared back his head and laughed, a rich, mellow sound, unreserved and unashamed. " No, not ... (Karen Chance)

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right. ... (Bobby Womack)

Also, as a result of the involvement of American foundations that have backing from the U.S. State Department in Iranian internal politics, cultural exchange and dialogue have become more and ... (Mohammad Marandi)

As the parts that made the Bugatti were pulled apart and twisted, the information that was embodied in the Bugatti was largely destroyed. This is another way of saying that ... (Cesar Hidalgo)

Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if ... (Rick Remender)

I don't go to church. Not anymore. I'm a lot of things, but a hypocrite really isn't one of them. If you're not going to play by the rules, you ... (Emma Chase)

Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore ... (George Carlin)

How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your ... (Paul Zane Pilzer)

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are. ... (Charles Eisenstein)

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. ... (Al D'Amato)

There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm ... (Natsuki Takaya)

Maze: "I'm alerting HQ. Stand by." *on the private comlink* Corr: "How are you Omega? Can we help? We're really concerned that you're stranded on a shabla rock surrounded by ... (Karen Traviss)

If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which ... (Kenneth J.W. Craik)

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that ... (Marc Bolan)

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. ... (Robert Breault)

And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June! ... (Robert Browning)

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own ... (Gore Vidal)

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath ... (Roger Angell)

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports. ... (Rachel Griffiths)

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. ... (Sun Tzu)

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. ... (Andrew Mayne)

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not. ... (David Dreman)

Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn't covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more. ... (Rinker Buck)