FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before ... (David Henry Hwang)

Appreciate and value your time because this is the key to success ... (Sunday Adelaja)

The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer. ... (Julie Hebert)

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, ... (P. J. O'Rourke)

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one ... (Robert Greenleaf)

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

Science is the global civilization of which I am a citizen. The spread of its democratic ethic and its unifying powers provides my faith in humanity. The astonishing depths of ... (E. O. Wilson)

As soon as we hit campus freshman year, Kennedy had pledged his father's fraternity. Despite my boyfriend's need for cliquish affiliation, I'd never shared that aspiration. He didn't seem to ... (Tammara Webber)

As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on all sides, accosted now and then, and gradually ... (Albert Camus)

She entered my life during a brief period when all the stars had momentarily aligned. It wasn't until it all exploded, throwing my entire world out of orbit, that I ... (Aly Martinez)

Constance could put names to all the growing things, but I was content to know them by their way and place of growing, and their unfailing offers of refuge. ... (Shirley Jackson)

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go. ... (Andrew Evans)

Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. ... (Rick Riordan)

You'll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn't your idea of love, is it? You'd rather cut me deep on earth to ... (Matthew J. Hefti)

My heart skipped a beat. 'I'm scared,' I admitted, needing to tell him. 'I'm scared to death of what I feel for you, of how you affect me. I feel ... (Micalea Smeltzer)

But the good news is that since this is the worst day ever, tomorrow can only be better. Even if it's by a little bit. ... (Julie Murphy)

The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans ... (Neal A. Maxwell)

Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small creature is alive and looks for adventure. Here's ... (Robert Fulghum)

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine. ... (Matt Skiba)

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want ... (Eleanor Roosevelt)

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed ... (Tony Snow)

Narratives are subjective and selective. They frame and filter concepts, images, and information according to desirable beliefs, values, symbols, traditions, and preferences. They are motivational tools that reinforce existing social ... (Padraig O'Malley)

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential ... (Herbert Otto Gille)

Pigs after pigs, walking in group going on the way for the barracks, to be the first meal of the wolfs. (Salem's Lot) ... (Deyth Banger)

I run back to the peephole and see all three of them as they walk past with these things in their hands, I can hear the woman who I assume ... (M.B. Julien)

As Confucius said many years ago: ... (Robin S. Sharma)

Charlotte dropped her gaze to her feet. You're the most heroic man I've ever met, Stone Hammond. Slowly she lifted her face. I owe you everything. ... (Karen Witemeyer)

Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It is a state of non-doing. ... (Rajneesh)

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next. ... (Charles de Lint)

Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in ... (Kenny Chesney)