FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but ... (John Gray)

They come from Mobile. Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Meridian. And the sounds of these places in their mouths make you think of love. When you ask them ... (Toni Morrison)

And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticiaptions, from silly notions - from all the symptoms of you." "Isn't ... (Aldous Huxley)

They love each other, marry (in order to love each other better, more conveniently). He goes to the wars, he dies at the wars. She weeps (with emotion) at having ... (Samuel Beckett)

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game ... (Ross Macdonald)

Catherine Avril Morris: Thank you for sharing your life and your beautiful baby boy, August John, with me. His life was short but his impact on mine is everlasting. Lady, ... (Katie Graykowski)

Yo momma so ugly she makes onions cry. ... (Various)

This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die. Strange, is it not? ... (Paul Auster)

In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave ... (Mike Harding)

If it were not for the Eucharist, if it were not for this marvelous manifestation of God's love, if it were not for this opportunity to place ourselves in the ... (Theodore Edgar McCarrick)

Man Code 25: The universal compensation for everything is beer. Unless you agree to monetary compensation ahead of time, all favors will be repaid in beer. If the favor was ... (Charles Esquire Sr.)

He had a Cro-Magnon forehead, ... (S.M. Reine)

I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes. ... (Francis Ford Coppola)

Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meeting by a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said ... (John Holt)

He gave them what they demanded of him, he obeyed the command, but not sullenly or diffidently, and not in shame. Rooted in the land of his fathers, standing before ... (Guy Gavriel Kay)

Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and turns it on as high as it will ... (Ruth McLeod-Kearns)

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop. ... (Lee Friedlander)

In the hands of blood-sucking monsters a scripture becomes a weapon that takes away humanism from the heart of humans and fills them with hate, rage and selfishness, whereas, in ... (Abhijit Naskar)

She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is ... (Rebecca McNutt)

It is ok if you talk to a rock, but it is not ok if you expect any reply! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, ... (Victor Frederick Weisskopf)

She looked at him, beautiful Kazimir whose smile used to work on her like a summons, compelling her to his side. ... (Laini Taylor)

I believe people are still wonderful in hating. They hate what they don't understand, they hate each other. No matter what anyone says, this world is still not a bit ... (Brian Molko)

For the man on the street, science and math sound too and soulless. It is hard to appreciate their significance Most of us are just aware of Newton's apple trivia ... (Sharad Nalawade)

Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace. ... (C.J. Mahaney)

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. ... (Rush Limbaugh)

I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! ... (Arthur Miller)

Fascination takes many forms, but all tap into instinctive triggers, such as the need to hunt, to control, to feel secure, to nurture and be nurtured. Some fascinations last only ... (Sally Hogshead)

The exact orbit of Earth is controlled by the Sun's mass and the mass of all remaining planets. An object's mass and its distance is all we need to know ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself. ... (Sherman Alexie)