FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

You have carjacking back in old England?" "Carjacking?" "People walk up to you, steal your car." "No, but thanks for asking. We have people who clean your windscreen against your ... (Douglas Adams)

Andy: Andrew Makepeace Ladd, the Third, accepts with pleasure the kind invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Channing Gardner for a birthday party in honor of their daughter Melissa on ... (A.R. Gurney)

Yet the freedom of the artist, the pure beauty of nature, and the liberty of each of us to live our lives as we choose are still under threat - ... (Sabazius X)

So that's when I came up with the most ridiculous plan since I'd decided to take a witness statement from a ghost. It was a plan so stupid that even ... (Ben Aaronovitch)

These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as "Will I ever do time?" and "Did this girl have a trusting heart?" The smell of meat and blood clouds ... (Bret Easton Ellis)

When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse! ... (Avijeet Das)

I always try to remember that I am a work in progress. When I maintain that perspective, I realize that I don't have to be perfect. I don't have to ... (John C. Maxwell)

Girl, you grew up with Beau. You should know better than that. He ain't a dummy. Besides, someone'll tell him, and when they do, all hell's gonna break loose ... (Abbi Glines)

Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief ... (Epicurus)

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal. ... (Paul Valery)

Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete darkness. I felt compelled to look deeper, searching ... (Cristina Martin)

Consistent participation in the act and spirit of Early Morning Prayer will eradicate from your life the things that create the majority of all spiritual inconsistencies. Almost all of the ... (Tony Bailey)

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and ... (Criss Jami)

Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president ... (Carl Forti)

Syn watched the Partini closely as the alien lunged for him. He caught the alien's wrist before the knife could make contact with his skin. The Partini tried to pull ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful ... (Jean Shinoda Bolen)

I watched her silently as she retreated. And somewhere deep down inside, somewhere where there were no rules and no limits, somewhere where only the beating of my own heart ... (Mia Sheridan)

My friend Wicker once said to be careful what and how you say what you're really thinking to a woman. After much screwing up in that department with Emma, I've ... (Cyndi Goodgame)

Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time ... Darkness is divine also. Faith ... (Matthew Fox)

The relation between the white and black races in Africa in many ways resembles the relation between the two sexes. If the one of the two sexes were told that ... (Karen Blixen)

They say I am a brave girl I'm a hailstorm for the rain I'm a volcano for the mountain I'm a diamond for the stone And I wonder if I ... (Emma Brynstein)

After Natalie [Wood] and I got back from our honeymoon, I began The Hunters, with Robert Mitchum, directed by Dick Powell. I adored both of them. Powell was one of ... (Robert Wagner)

It is the Holy Spirit who keeps us from this path and gives us confidence so we can enjoy intimacy with our Creator. Though I do not believe God gives ... (Francis Chan)

It's easy to feel like the bunny rabbi frozen in terror. And it's easy to feel like one of the fire balloons, at the whim of the wind, either rising ... (Ava Dellaira)

With a dreamy sigh, I prop my chin on my fists. "Who knew that one day I'd be on a date with the lead singer from a famous boy band?" ... (Lexi Ryan)

That night was my first exposure to the life I was supposed to be living at my age. I dont know, I didn't get it. "You'll get a job, hate ... (CrimethInc.)

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You ... (Marvin Hamlisch)

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty ... (Howard Moss)

Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well ... " She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want ... (Jennings Michael Burch)

The idea of gas engines was by no means new, but this was the first time that a really serious effort had been made to put them on the market. ... (Henry Ford)

Call of Sedona: God who is in heaven. Thank you for letting us know you. God who is in all the moountains and the streams, thank you for letting us ... (Ilchi Lee)

It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others ... sometimes strangers ... (Sanjo Jendayi)

I'm a thinkin' my old man won't know de boys and de baby. Lor'! she's de biggest gal, now, - good she is, too, and peart, Polly is. She's out ... (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

We all wish something or other in our life in our own way, but God have other plans and they are best for us to realize our dream and destiny. ... (Pravin Agarwal)

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I ... (Gloria Steinem)

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels. ... (Mylo Carbia)

The painters have no copyright on modern art! ... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does ... (Edward Weston)

Someone sent me a letter that had one of the best quotes I've ever read. It said "What is to give light must endure burning." It's by a writer named ... (Damien Echols)

Unlike other features on OkCupid, there is no visual component to match percentage. The number between two people only reflects what you might call their inner selves - everything about ... (Christian Rudder)

I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be ... (Rebecca McNutt)

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up. ... (Joel Edgerton)

In this age of one-night stands, virtual relationships and text sex, a wedding was a modern miracle. ... (Eleanor Prescott)

To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation ... (Richard Misrach)

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ... (Earl Warren)

You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever ... (Elliot Perlman)

Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, ... (Pope Leo XIII)

Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I ... (Humphrey Bogart)

For the history of left-hand-path ideas, the all-important figure of Odin underwent a radical, yet predictable, splitting of image. He was - like all the other gods - portrayed as ... (Stephen E. Flowers)

Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail. Anyone who is currently achieving anything in life is simultaneously risking failure. It ... (John Landis Mason)

With each impact you tell me that my body belongs to you; that I am yours to use, yours to punish and yours to screw. Your words are almost as ... (Felicity Brandon)

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. ... (Chinua Achebe)

When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and ... (Alfred Hitchcock)

I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best ... (Mary-Louise Parker)

Things like taking a few dollars out of a paycheck, putting it into savings, and leaving it there. Or doing a few minutes of exercise every day - and not ... (Jeff Olson)

I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, ... (Robin Hobb)

A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that she should bear and care for and rear ... (Martin Luther)

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this ... (Demetri Martin)

I started the first drafts of the book during my sophomore year of college. I wasn't thinking at all about kids at the time. But I was thinking. A lot. ... (Caleb J. Ross)

But is Christian faith the place to turn for logic? Is not logic the domain of scholars and philosophers? The British philosopher John Locke condemns this common misconception: "God has ... (Joel McDurmon)

The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon making inquiry, I found all ... (Henry Hamilton Beamish)