FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A famous Japanese Zen master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about. Some ... (Jeff Bridges)

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I ... (Kristen Schaal)

They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of ... (W. Somerset Maugham)

Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible ... (Daisy Goodwin)

A ship doesn't look quite the same from inside, does it? A wise sailor,' Robert said, fanning his arms, 'will one time stand upon the shore and watch his ship ... (Diane Carey)

My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane. Now, I expected her to pay up. ... (Katie McGarry)

Nothing can change the past, including thought. However, dwelling on thoughts about the past does change our experience of the Now. When we drag the past into the present, everything ... (Gina Lake)

You have to pay your dues. And what's nice, after booking a lot of new people ... I counted the other day. We're in September and we've already booked between ... (Scott Aukerman)

Religion is the secret of life. It teaches us to love, to serve, to forgive, to endure, and to interact with our brothers and sisters with empathy and compassion. Advaita ... (Mata Amritanandamayi)

Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success. ... (Norman Vincent Peale)

They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, time, they all enhance the ... (Carol Vorvain)

Death and madness are his only mistresses. ... (Kristen Painter)

A thin layer of dust covered everything, and I doubted anyone had been in the room for decades. I have a vast weakness for secret things. ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

Anyway, since you and I must choose one road to follow, out of the many that run to the same place in the end, it might as well be a ... (Peter S. Beagle)

In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing ... (Laura Bush)

I remember the day before my dad died, I was in a hospital room with him, and he had lived a long life. He was 94, and I helped him ... (Andy Kim)

I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick. ... (Cynthia Hand)

An hour or so ago, they were in a heated discussion over whether or not Shane would've been a better father than Rick on The Walking Dead. Somehow that had ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

You're still you, and he's still him. People don't change, Clara Belle. Not because they don't want to, but because they can't. Boone is who he is, and you are ... (Nicole Williams)

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. ... (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome. ... (Jan Tschichold)

Toby smiled and started to speak, but Josh adjusted his hold on Tank and reached back, covering Toby's mouth. "Wait," Grace said. "I think he was going to actually use ... (Jill Shalvis)

And the minibar in my hotel room was mysteriously emptied." "By arcane forces beyond the understanding of normal human beings?" asked Myfanwy as she sifted through the in-box. It was ... (Daniel O'Malley)

In this world of human affairs there is no worse nuisance than a boy at the age of fourteen. He is neither ornamental nor useful. It is impossible to shower ... (Rabindranath Tagore)

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day. ... (Jonny Greenwood)

Who was she in high school? Little Miss Nobody. She could have embroidered it on her sweaters, tattooed it across her forehead. And in small letters: i am shit, i ... (T.C. Boyle)

Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back. ... (Michael Pollan)

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story ... (Adalbert Stifter)

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants ... (Isak Dinesen)

As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)