FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I had been so focused on why we were suffering through all these adversities that I had neglected to think about who could get me through them or how God ... (Tracie Miles)

It is commonplace to say that silent films are more "dreamlike," but what does that mean? In Nosferatu, it means that the characters are confronted with alarming images and denied ... (Roger Ebert)

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. ... (Alex Katz)

It's a funny world, Hobbes." "True." "But it's not a hilarious world. ... unless you like sick humour." "The world is probably funnier to people who don't live here. ... (Bill Watterson)

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work ... (Michael Leunig)

Life is beautiful, you are beautiful, no excuses. ... (Miya Yamanouchi)

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, ... (Tony Parsons)

I asked him, 'If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?' And do you know what he ... (Brett Williams)

Beware young brides: The cruelest behaviors on earth are done in the name of, what some call, 'love.' Therefore, the Shulamite does a much better job at defining love than ... (Michael Ben Zehabe)

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to ... (Frederick Buechner)

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind. ... (Karrine Steffans)

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag ... (Ed Miliband)

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong - to his own satisfaction. You are anarchists in ... (Jack London)

We have babies because we want them to love us, to make us important, but the only make us tired and fat and stinking of spit up because they're babies, ... (Laura Wiess)

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive. ... (Flavor Flav)

Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispered, "You're about to find out how your liver tastes, my friend." "I have tasted ... (Gena Showalter)

Aidan's hands itched to strangle the woman. He had known Marie from the moment of her birth - sixty two years ago - and they had never exchanged a cross ... (Christine Feehan)

Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build ... (Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft)

I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely ... that the whole natural order ... (Christopher Hitchens)

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent. ... (Tirumalai Krishnamacharya)

Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather ... (Debasish Mridha)

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. ... (Joe Abercrombie)

The hybrid car I was aiming for suddenly crumples under the weight of something crashing down on it. The thunder of the crash almost makes me jump out of my ... (Susan Ee)

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. ... (Anonymous)

But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations. ... (Arthur C. Clarke)

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it. ... (Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt)

Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience. ... (Allan Lokos)

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place. ... (Hari Kunzru)

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them. ... (Joel Silver)

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is ... (Hart Crane)