FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The security business is as thick as the club. Business in both areas stays private. Everyone is on a need-to-know basis, me and Mom included...that is until I patch in. ... (Katie McGarry)

Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded by Carrington's suicide just two months after, in ... (Jane Goldman)

To my way of thinking there's something wrong, or missing, with any person who hasn't got a soft spot in their heart for an animal of some kind. With most ... (Will James)

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may in turn so entirely forget it ... (Soren Kierkegaard)

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to ... (Jonathan Horton)

The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it." "Yes," ... (Rick Riordan)

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty ... (Mandy Moore)

Have you ever thought for once that when you look in the mirror you are hyper aware of your flaws? When the rest of us may see something different. Like ... (Marilyn Grey)

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH. ... (Vikrmn)

We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have ... (Lily Eskelsen Garcia)

Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who ... (Henry Alonso Myers)

Was thinking - um, maybe you should let me do the talking." He glanced over at her. "What are you saying? That I'm scary?" "You're the scariest person I've ever ... (Arthur Bradley)

Why did she do this to me?" I mumble. "Actually, Samuel, from my preliminary scans of your internal organs, it does not appear that our mother has done anything to ... (James Patterson)

The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they ... (C. JoyBell C.)

One can always sell something by offering the lowest price. But this does not create loyalty to your brand. Never did and never will. It only creates "loyalty" to that ... (David Brier)

How are you this morning? You get up in time for your workout?" "Yeah. Just finished that. It was just a run ... well, a run in full combat uniform ... (Cat Johnson)

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners. ... (Ben Stiller)

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? ... (Cormac McCarthy)

Tom said, "Let me beg you never to tell that story to Will. He'd have you locked up." "But the house wasn't worth what I asked!" "I repeat what I ... (John Steinbeck)

To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such ... (J.M.G. Le Clezio)

Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a big purpose behind it. And the purpose is ... (Nirmala Srivastava)

Submission has nothing to do with equality. Men and women are equal, but we have been assigned different roles. Neither role is superior. The Trinity models this concept. The Persons ... (Susan Hunt)

I can't tell which is the worse fate--to question everything, to be paralyzed by indecision, or to question nothing and move through the world blind to any other way of ... (Laura Thalassa)

Get used to your mortality. It will eventually consume you so why not pick up an addiction. ... (Pamela August Russell)

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all ... (Drew Gooden)

Marvelously clear-fretted in the unsmoked air, the Abbey rose, silver-grey. It stood detached by the serenity of age from the ephemeral growths around it. It was solid on a foundation ... (John Wyndham)

A day of dappled seaborne clouds. The phrase and the day and the scene harmonised in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, ... (James Joyce)

I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice ... (Chris Christie)

No, I don't work here, I'm taking pictures of messy bathrooms for a photo essay on the American West. But I'm always up for clean, so if you want to ... (Pansy Schneider-Horst)

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a ... (Gayle Forman)

Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing ... (Tom McDonough)

Brands no longer own their message. They can try to control it, but they do not own it. Today, consumers own the message. What they say about a brand carries ... (Kim Garst)

In fact, Clinton feels others' pain to the point that he not infrequently openly weeps for them, and his teary response is so infectious that it can trigger tears in ... (John Gartner)

Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. ... (Rick Riordan)

But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through ... (Melissa Bank)

First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and ... (Anonymous)

The Seventh Sense Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea ... (Audre Lorde)

The Prophet once said to his Companions, "Do you want to see a man of Paradise?" A man then passed by, and the Prophet said, "That man is of the ... (Hamza Yusuf)

An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She ... (Virginia Woolf)

Crying is like a thundershower for the soul. The air feels so wonderful after the rain. Don't think too much. Breathe. Don't be harsh or demanding on yourself. Just experience ... (Bryant McGill)

So when I'm in that teddy bear suit, I'm like a creepy, sexy baby. ... (Miley Cyrus)

YOUR DREAMS WANT YOU. YOUR DREAMS LOVE YOU AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE IT. ... (Diana Rose Morcilla)

Grandmere says she can't get over the change in me. She says I seem taller. And you know maybe I am. She thinks it's because I'm wearing another one of ... (Meg Cabot)

It is to be regretted that the niceties of modern singing frighten our congregations from joining lustily in the hymns. For our part we delight in full bursts of praise, ... (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Kaidan had been captivated by the store owner's deep Texan accent. He asked a ridiculous number of questions just to keep the man talking. He then tried to repeat the ... (Wendy Higgins)

The Army's new pitch was simple. Good pay, good benefits, a manageable amount of adventure ... but don't worry, we're not looking to pick fights these days. For a country ... (Rachel Maddow)

Be like the sun; it does not look for the spotlight; the limelight travels with it wherever it goes. ... (Matshona Dhliwayo)

It has been said by many that a true love story has no happy ending simply because the truest of loves never ends. It is immortal. This is the kind ... (Michele L. Rivera)

The Great Man ... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?" Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully. Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation ... (J.K. Rowling)

He moved closer and cupped her face in his hands. "I love you." Her eyes filled with tears, her expression suddenly so hopeful and vulnerable it made his heart ache. ... (Julie James)

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? ... (Mary Shelley)

Deep inside the smoldering stump of Israel, a remnant of life was rising to push back the darkness and break through the crust of the desolation of the people of ... (Russ Ramsey)

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a ... (Josephine Hart)

You know what my mother said to me when she came to say good-bye, as if to cheer me up, she says maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner. ... (Suzanne Collins)

In books and movies, all the loose ends are tired, things are resolved, mysteries are solved, they catch the killer, the boy gets the girl, a sick baby is miraculously ... (Cindy Vine)

Listening to Eminem makes me feel like a badass. Or at least as though I have the potential for badassery. I mean, the way he sings, it's like he'd probably ... (Hannah Harrington)

Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You ... (Kemi Sogunle)

I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles ... (Ray Bradbury)

I know some of you must be thinking, This is a preposterous and thinly veiled attempt to obscure the use of relaxers, weaves, and lace fronts. Trust me on this ... (Justin Simien)