FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother ... (Tasha Smith)

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology ... (Fannie Barrier Williams)

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted. ... (Rob Lowe)

Saturn takes twenty-nine years to return to the point in the sky where it was at the moment we were born. Until that happens, everything seems possible, our dreams can ... (Paulo Coelho)

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and ... (William Bennett)

Now I find that what life was making of me, what God was making of me, was not an arrow to trace a path through the sky, but the hub ... (Lisa Samson)

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. ... (Chief Joseph)

But the second kind seek out the women who love women, who can procure a young man for them and add to the pleasure which they get from finding themselves ... (Marcel Proust)

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use. ... (Daisy Berkowitz)

The history of representations of Cleopatra provides one of the clearest instances of the conviction that whiteness is the pinnacle of human beauty. Cleopatra became a byword for feminine beauty ... (Richard Dyer)

When I noticed other people, I wondered what it was like to be alive. They did not know, could not know, how I felt inside. My shell still passed for ... (Jonathan Rottenberg)

Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. ... (Frances Mayes)

I almost lost you." "No, never. I would've fought. However long it took. I'd never give up until I was free. You're my life, Jonah. My family, my love, my ... (J.B. Salsbury)

Then he would ask for songs and I would pluck them out for him on a lute I borrowed from my father's wagon. He would even sing from time to ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world. ... (Juno Temple)

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his ... (Gerry Spence)

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter ... (Marilyn Monroe)

Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' ... (Greg Kinnear)

The look on your face is priceless. You can't decide if you want to go 'oh poor baby' or spit on my shadow." "Sounds about right," Ash admitted. ... (Jesse Hajicek)

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport. ... (Marc Anthony)

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world. ... (B.K.S. Iyengar)

A great reader makes a great writer ... (Kate DiCamillo)

There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the ... (Gottfried Leibniz)

Her eyes finally find and lock onto mine. All I see is my future, my salvation, my singular chance at redemption. ... (K. Bromberg)

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. ... (John Brunner)

I've experienced the feeling of about a dozen different drugs simply from a good conversation. I think, more often than not, that's why people get addicted. They want a high ... (Vironika Tugaleva)

How could you live somewhere so icy cold and imposing, so clearly in conflict with the rest of the city, the rest of the human population, and stay in love? ... (Corey Ann Haydu)

I was jealous of [Nora] at first, because she had prettier dresses and the naturally curly hair that had been my ultimate worldly desire at that age. In fact, when ... (Lia Habel)

If you hear unwanted voices, just keep your heart singing. ... (Toba Beta)

Edward didn't know what he was thinking, asking her about marriage. He wasn't a damned viscount. He refused to be one. And whatever odd flutterings he may have felt in ... (Courtney Milan)