FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, ... (Ann Brashares)

It was (Nick Frost's) first-ever bedroom scene and my first-ever bedroom scene ... not that we were actually doing much, but we did have to lie sort of semi-nude under ... (Talulah Riley)

Lord, Your Word is a love letter to me, showing me how much You love me. And every time I read it, I love You more. ... (Stormie O'martian)

Choices are usually decisions motivated by pleasure and pain, and the divided mind acts with the sole purpose of getting "I" into pleasure and out of pain. But the best ... (Alan W. Watts)

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it ... (Georg Brandes)

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. ... (Mary Browne)

Scurvy became a problem. This disease comes from a deficiency of vitamin C, and it causes the victim's connective tissue to break down. The Irish called scurvy black leg, because ... (Ryan Hackney)

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect. ... (Bernie Mac)

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening. ... (Vera Farmiga)

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done. ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

I just love coming to Vegas. There is always a good energy here; the minute you get off the plane, it is happy. Every experience I have had here is ... (Kelly Carlson)

Now what I want to know is what happened when you found Bryony, Leo," said Will. "Did you just say your sister sent me, pack up everything and come with ... (Sherry Thomas)

We don't take kindly to troublemakers in these parts." I drawled it out, hoping he got the picture: I'm a country boy and I will light you up if you ... (Vivienne Savage)

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as ... (Gene Autry)

I want to be your personal penguin. Please? ... (Sandra Boynton)

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if ... (Christopher Hitchens)

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books. Soon after ... (Hope Jahren)

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely. ... (Ezra Pound)

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and ... (Cassandra Clare)

His silence says so much. I can almost reach out and touch the guilt growing on his shoulders. ... (Tahereh Mafi)

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to ... (John F. Kennedy)

If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in ... (Clark Blaise)

Into the main part of the store. Off to get Kendal, I mouthed to Celine, and she nodded. I stepped out into the September afternoon. Behind me, Eighty-ninth Street stretched ... (Susan Meissner)

Remember to be kind. Always. ... (Debasish Mridha)

The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium are a representation of the life she could not face; these ... (Elizabeth Hardwick)

Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It's hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is ... (Amy Poehler)

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long. ... (Samuel Gompers)

I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be ... (Jennifer Garner)

Narinder Kaur had been told the story so often she believed it must be her earliest memory: that she was four years old when she'd sprinted out of their Croydon ... (Sunjeev Sahota)

On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He ... (Bud Selig)