FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

For me, family means the silent treatment. At any given moment, someone is always not speaking to someone else.' Really,' I said. We're passive-aggressive people,' she explained, taking a sip ... (Sarah Dessen)

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores. ... (Bob Dylan)

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous. ... (Dave Brat)

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned ... (Derek Walcott)

The typical Greek myth goes something like this: innocent shepherd boy is minding his own business, an overflying god spies him and gets a hard-on, swoops down and rapes him ... (Neal Stephenson)

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old ... (Ray Bradbury)

He woke up frozen stiff. A cold dawn was lighting up the peaks on the other side of the valley, making them shine like giant lanterns. Above, through the broken ... (Stephen Deas)

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, ... (Annie Besant)

Selling is an emotional experience shrouded by an intellectual process. On ... (David Mattson)

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a ... (Dionne Warwick)

Have no interest in handing down an indictment of mankind. If I did, I'd point out that for every Michelangelo there's a Marquis de Sade, for every Gandhi an Eichmann, ... (Stephen King)

We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and ... (Kim Hyesoon)

Work with enthusiasm. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

This leads to the idea of a race between education and technology: if the supply of skills does not increase at the same pace as the needs of technology, then ... (Thomas Piketty)

He asked us what we were doing, and our smuggler said, "Oh, nothing. We're just hanging out" - as if lots of Americans in ninja suits loitered around Syria in ... (Richard Engel)

I had a beautiful dream the other day. I was coming home from work and you were standing behind white picket fence trimming roses. You were dressed up all in ... (J. Zima)

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry. ... (Nalini Singh)

Disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the ... (Benjamin Franklin)

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone. ... (Bias of Priene)

Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out, or you're about to die. There's no middle ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid. ... (Ty Segall)

Always yearn to be an instrument for the Kingdom ... (Sunday Adelaja)

Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write: Charles's friend, Burns's poems, the witch's malice. ... The pronomial possessives hers, ... (Strunk Jr., William)

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed. ... (Mata Amritanandamayi)

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that ... (Anna Paquin)

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person. ... (Kate Morton)

I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. "Accident," I whisper. I will fall. I seem to desire the ... (John Gardner)

Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch. ... (Franny Billingsley)

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing ... (Nick McDonell)