FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns ... (Nick Morgan)

Singing the songs, writing the lyrics, emotioning the words; that is all I can do for love. ... (M.F. Moonzajer)

Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can't TOUCH those feelings. Its like they belonged to someone ... (Bill Shapiro)

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and ... (Anthony Trollope)

I'm not Janessa. I want to celebrate my wedding, with friends and family, while having a really good time. If someone spills punch on my dress, I'm not going to ... (Mary Jane Hathaway)

A line is a dot that went for a walk. ... (Paul Klee)

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of ... (Stephen King)

He done his level best. Was he a mining on the flat.. He done it with a zest.. Was he a leading of the choir.. He done his level best. ... (Mark Twain)

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Live fairy-gifts fading away, Thou ... (Thomas Moore)

I earned my GED at the Gig Pit at jump school. My AA was earned at HAAF in RIP's Gig Pit. MY BA was awarded back at Benning's Ranger School ... (Jose N. Harris)

I am just going outside and may be some time. Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the ... (Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates)

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. ... (Marilyn Monroe)

It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime. ... (Deb Caletti)

This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a ... (Bruce Fuller)

If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we're all OK And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful And useless in times like these ... (Jewel)

It is a mistake," he said, " to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who ... (Isaac Asimov)

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who ... (Daniel H. Pink)

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire. ... (Jenny Holzer)

Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ... (Gordon B. Hinckley)

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don ... (Steve Waugh)

Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should ... (Eleftherios Venizelos)

When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us. ... (Dave Pelzer)

The evidence is in, and you are the verdict. ... (Anne Lamott)

There's always a little wiggle room," he'd told Simon, "a little space to figure these things out yourself." He'd taught Simon to ask questions, to challenge authority, to understand and ... (Cassandra Clare)

I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots. ... (Shaquille O'Neal)

Stop complainin." Jess climbed up to the cab and leaned down to pull me up beside him. "I'm not complaining." His fingers clung to my wrists as the soles on ... (S.D. Hendrickson)

The three of us blended with the clientele as well as a fifteen year-old ex-thief, a girl from the future masquerading as a young man, and a second-son of a ... (April White)

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society. ... (Criss Angel)

Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? ... (Rainbow Rowell)

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press ... (Denis Diderot)