FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The guiding metaphor of classic style is seeing the world. The writer can see something that the reader has not yet noticed, and he orients the reader's gaze so that ... (Steven Pinker)

Do you think only people in books do crazy things? ... (Nina George)

I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but ... (Leonhard Euler)

O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob pipe and a straw hat. She imagined the ... (George Saunders)

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they ... (Leonardo DiCaprio)

You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here. ... (Simon Van Booy)

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail. ... (Greg Abbott)

False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, ... (Ellen G. White)

In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider. ... (Muriel Wace)

I can be a little bit outrageous. I can be a lot of things. I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do ... (Orlando Bloom)

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity ... (Peter Drucker)

I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't ... (Stephen Hawking)

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons ... (Alan Stern)

She, the first-born daughter of water, faced darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her lover and raised light as her child. Man that shit was wild. You should have seen ... (Saul Williams)

And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for something, a version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favorite old ... (Ian McEwan)

Old beggars in stories are never really old beggars," Simmon said with a hint of accusation in his voice. "They're always a witch or a prince or an angel or ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. ... (Cesare Pavese)

The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions. ... (Michelle Yeoh)

I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was ... (Adoniram Judson)

We have choice," she insisted. "This is it. We don't get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we're given ... ... (Dianna Hardy)

I'd thought there'd be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway - silently, suddenly. ... (You Jin)

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. ... (Rick Yancey)

People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.' ... (Carrot Top)

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh ... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need ... (John Currin)

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. ... (George Santayana)

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical. ... (Colin Firth)

May your good heart be in good hands ... (Unknown)

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. ... (Robert Holdstock)

Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness. It will survive us. ... (Terry Tempest Williams)

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving. ... (Pauline Collins)