FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I tell you, the Pokemon industry has bled me dry. ... (Alessandro Nivola)

Knowing your customer means knowing what your customer really wants. Maybe it is your product, but maybe there's something else, too: recognition, respect, reliability, concern, service, a feeling of self-importance, ... (Harvey B. Mackay)

Reid turned to Jax and with nothing more than a look, they said more things in three seconds than most women could say in three hours. Thanks for always being ... (Gina L. Maxwell)

The only true law is that which leads to freedom, ... (Richard Bach)

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me ... (Phoebe Fox)

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. ... (Judith Viorst)

I think about how lonely I am without you. How boring my day is without you. How much I miss hearing your voice and your laugh. How much I miss ... (Alison G. Bailey)

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they ... (Hugh Grant)

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball. ... (Leigh Steinberg)

Remember those dogs I was talking about? The cues? While I was watching TV, I missed a few. Take a look: Steven is smiling, almost laughing. After all the punishment ... (Emma Chase)

Negative habits eat you up. They're the biggest roadblocks that prevent you from realising your fullest potential; and the very first step towards crafting real change is to become aware ... (Manprit Kaur)

The new Squarepusher album as well, although it is proper headf*** industrial. Not one for a pool party in Ibiza! ... (Ralph Lawson)

A Mixed-breed Apple A little mixed-breed apple, half red, half yellow, tells this story. A lover and beloved get separated. Their being apart was one thing, but they have opposite ... (Rumi)

I was seized at once with a profound fascination, a burning thirst to learn, to immerse myself totally, to melt away, to become as one with this foreign universe. To ... (Ryszard Kapuscinski)

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. ... (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel ... (Stephenie Meyer)

The doctor asked me recently how I was feeling within myself, I replied, "absolutely fine doctor, but I'm terribly lonely without myself. ... (Benny Bellamacina)

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape all addictions stem from ... (Pema Chodron)

I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a constraint, as strong as any belt. And ... (Theodora Goss)

Is it true?" he said. "They're saying all down the train that Harry Potter's in this compartment. So it's you, is it?" "Yes," said Harry. He was looking at the ... (J.K. Rowling)

I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation ... when they realise instinctively that this ... (Evonne Goolagong Cawley)

After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle. We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us ... (Abigail Haas)

Advertising is the best insurance that you can take out on your business. You can buy fire insurance on your stock of goods, but no company will issue a policy ... (Frank Farrington)

Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with seven mystic drawers, a chair covered in material ... (Robert McCammon)

I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. ... (Tyson Beckford)

When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to ... (Rick Riordan)

Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they ... (J.C. Ryle)

I've learned that for hoarders, every cleanup is a grieving process. We are asking them to say goodbye to items that are heavy with memories - some wonderful, some painful. ... (Matt Paxton)

There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. ... (Milan Kundera)

All to the north the rain had dragged black tendrils down from the thunderclouds like tracings of lampblack fallen in a beaker and in the night they could hear the ... (Cormac McCarthy)

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better ... (George Alec Effinger)

We therapists often make inaccurate assumptions about people living with DID and DDNOS. They often appear to be "just like us," so we often assume their experience of life reflects ... (Alison Miller)

Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?' enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over. 'One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full ... (Michel Faber)

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known how to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humble surroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, ... (Joseph Conrad)

It tastes good, garlic and salt in it, with the half-sweet white wine of Orvieto on scanty grass under great trees where the ramparts cuddle Lucca. It sounds right, spoken ... (Basil Bunting)

This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but ... (Jonathan Safran Foer)

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we'll do what we want. ... (Daniel Willey)

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and ... (Sara Paretsky)

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some ... (John Jay Hooker)

Jesus, I'm sorry. I have wasted your time with a fake deal. I acknowledge that this means you are of the case, and that I am now totally on my ... (Caitlin Moran)

In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. ... (Laura Wasser)

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the ... (William Butler Yeats)

In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written. ... (Charles Kingsley)

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. ... (Charles Bass)

The more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing. ... (Joe Abercrombie)

Love you always, miss you always ... running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and snow. Never look back, never forget. ... (Jessica Day George)

What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart. ... (David Sills)

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research ... (Magic Johnson)

I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and ... (Joanne Harris)

Kanban lets your team members motivate themselves as they decide what to work on. They take ownership of the task and their pride is measured in the number of completed ... (Aleksandar Olic)

My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different. ... (Simon Cowell)

The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big ... (Andy Andrews)

He shrugged and glanced at her hair. "Rough night?" Her brows drew together. "What makes you say that?" "Your bun is askew." Audrey's fingers flew to her hair. Sure enough, ... (Jessica Clare)

We shall go wild with fireworks ... And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big ... (Natsuki Takaya)

Imagine, with John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, ... (Richard Dawkins)

I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy. ... (Peter V. Brett)

Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and - and can one really be ... (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he ... (Robin Zander)

I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did ... (Meghan Markle)

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)