FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Well, at least someone around here is getting pregnant," Alexander said through clenched teeth, bending in his own stricken fury. "And it didn't take fifteen fucking years." "Like I'd keep ... (Paullina Simons)

There is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is ... (Gertrude Stein)

The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase ... (Gautam Adani)

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor ... (Philip Yancey)

By the cook, with a list of ... (Diana Gabaldon)

And when at last I find you your song will fill the air. ... (The Beatles)

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any ... (Hunter S. Thompson)

She was convinced the country was about to succumb to revolutionary socialism. Her own circumstances encouraged this belief: just on the edge of the really rich country set, she shared ... (James Robertson)

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. ... (Dar Williams)

Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because ... (Johnny Marr)

And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I ... (Yann Martel)

I cannot believe the sensuality of admiration can measure the depth of beauty that is bestowed upon you. ... (Bibhu Datta Rout)

Being with Ken was like being with a permanently foreign friend. It was impossible to understand them, but all you really needed to do was reflect back their own expressions. ... (Louise Penny)

I've always smiled... And matched with everyone around me. But eventually, I realized that there was no one around me anymore. It's not possible to have people like you when ... (Kozue Chiba)

Another image comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before ... (Milan Kundera)

The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all ... (Jerry Bridges)

Sounds like being a therapist. People normally came into my office because something happened. Someone had died, or betrayed them. Their love wasn't reciprocated. They'd lost a job. Gotten divorced. ... (Louise Penny)

You know things; you understand things. You have a history and a work life unlike anyone else's. Respect it. Pay attention to it. Let it inspire curious ponderings and original ... (David Sturt)

As they passed the giant saguaro cacti, Amelia knew they were getting close to home. They were magnificent, standing like humungous pitchforks in the middle of the desert. To her, ... (Linda Weaver Clarke)

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend. ... (El DeBarge)

Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction. ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling. ... (Paul Tagliabue)

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you're competing against a lot of people. But if you're willing to invest on a seven-year time ... (Jeff Bezos)

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about ... (Josh Hartnett)

If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation ... (Martin Luther King Jr.)

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. ... (Abraham Whipple)

Before you let your doctor give you testosterone shots or pills, try to boost it naturally by dramatically decreasing or even eliminating sugar, wheat, and processed foods from your diet. ... (Daniel G. Amen)

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he ... (Tertullian)

Once upon a time there was an island visited by ruin and inhabited by strange peccant creatures. "It's a sad place," I say, "and too much like my own life." ... (Rabih Alameddine)

There are two events in everybody's life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody ... (Steven Moffat)