FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A good friend of my son's is a son to me. ... (Lois McMaster Bujold)

But I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be. There's no reason on earth why I should be alone without Yoko. There's nothing more ... (John Lennon)

Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and ... (Kevin Myers)

She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer ... (John Fowles)

Baker's point of view: Femi directed her cat eyes to me with a devious glint in them. "So you've been banging the boss's daughter." I choked on my sandwich. She ... (Liz Schulte)

To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little. ... (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)

Great! I hope different police officers are here this time." "Might be, but we're in the same police jurisdiction. I'm certain from the last time you were here, they probably ... (Terry Spear)

In its individual manifestation the character of a man's anima is as a rule shaped by his mother. If he feels that his mother had a negative influence on him, ... (C. G. Jung)

Paradise" is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense ... (Andrew Rayner)

I had just sat down with my plate of food and hit play on the new CD player I'd received the night before, ready to hear the sounds of Handel's ... (Amy Harmon)

Excellence is the result of loving more than others think is necessary, dreaming more than others think is practical, risking more than others think is safe, and doing more than ... (John Geiger)

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite. ... (Murray Rothbard)

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency. ... (Jeanette Winterson)

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are ... (Bertrand Russell)

Women aren't as mere as they used to be. ... (Walt Kelly)

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. ... (Robert G. Ingersoll)

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human. We transform slowly into empty shells with smiley faces painted on them. Sad ... (Peter Scazzero)

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on. ... (Greg Iles)

Instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence? ... (H.G.Wells)

We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together ... (Nelson Mandela)

I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don't have to be with that person in order to ... (Khloe Kardashian)

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions. ... (Steve Earle)

I'd ended up sprawled across his chest, which was actually broader than it looked. Navy blue is a slimming colour, I guess. ... (Stacey Kade)

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ... (Golda Meir)

If you think that UFOs will come and save you, don't be fooled. The Nazis invented UFOs ... ... (Eric Burdon)

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates. ... (Dion Fortune)

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to ... (Darren Shahlavi)

Heaven's work never ceases, and men should never rest from doing good. The ... (Ellen G. White)

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in ... (Josephine Winslow Johnson)

There aren't twelve types of people in the universe--there are two... The ones that stand still and try to fit in... and the ones that go seek out where they ... (Romina Russell)

Every engineer, doctor, and farmer on this ship has relatives on the waiting list, too, and those relatives won't be drug addicts. Mom's right: no one would pick her from ... (Corinne Duyvis)

By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily ... (Eliza Parsons)

Car sex. Crossed. Off. The list. ... (Melanie Harlow)

Since I was a little kid, I've had this profound connection and love for the deep, dark, unmolested woods. I've always had a longing to be in the deep woods ... (Phil Robertson)

The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the ... (Warren St. John)

And it is everything I have longed for, and everything that breaks my heart. ... (Beth Revis)

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. ... (Sylvia Plath)

Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know ... (Bill Bryson)

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. ... (E.B. White)

Oh say can you see Alma. The darling of Them. All her friends were artists. They alone have memories. They alone love flowers. They alone give parties and die. Poor ... (Frank O'Hara)

Her cerulean eyes widened. "You dream about me?" His gaze snapped back to hers. "Nightmares only ... (Morgan Rhodes)

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. - Seneca ... (Seneca.)

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential. ... (Bill Parcells)

I have no words - alas! - to tell The loveliness of loving well! ... (Edgar Allan Poe)

I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me. ... (Jim Butcher)

The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, ... (Fanny Kemble)

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. ... (Chaim Weizmann)

The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want. ... (Lee Child)

Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean? ... in truth, I DID know what she meant. Da Vinci, Martin Luther King, Jr., ... (Marisha Pessl)

In May of 2010, the newest pitching phenom, Stephen Strasburg, played a minor league game in Syracuse. A huge crowd turned out, the largest in the history of the stadium. ... (Doug Wilson)

They seemed to be good people. Most people are if given the chance. ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

I just love playing in major championships. ... (Inbee Park)

I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like. ... (Noor Iskandar)

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream ... (Chance The Rapper)

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay ... but I'm not going to. ... (Katie Aselton)

But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side an unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountain, he thought how ... (C.S. Lewis)

Most beings only saw the beauty of a smoothed stone and thought nothing of the shape it might once have held or of the ceaseless pressure that formed it. Perhaps ... (Dallas E. Caldwell)

I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big ... (Sean Bean)

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted. ... (Bill Gates)