FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could read all those books piling up about the ... (Philip Schultz)

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding. ... (Sebastian Coe)

I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright. ... (Dennis Lehane)

I'd had my heart broken, you see. Fell in love with the wrong chap and he crushed me right down to the bedrock. Nothing left but humiliation. ... (Deanna Raybourn)

One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, ... (Abeba Habtu)

You crawled inside my ribs to die. Giant becomes squirrel becomes a dirt-wet girl feverishly alive. ... (Virginia Petrucci)

According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her ... (Jung Chang)

I'm really fortunate to have been to the schools I've been to, and to have the experiences I've had. And, partly since my parents are retired teachers, I've got the ... (Steven C. Harper)

It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you've got some idea how ... (Tana French)

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. ... (John Green)

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: ... (N.K. Jemisin)

See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away. ... (Ogwo David Emenike)

All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of ... (Charles Landry)

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on West-Running Brook. ... (Joseph Brodsky)

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, ... (Philip Pullman)

You in the mood for a movie tonight?" Kate asked him a couple days later. Matt was working, and she was sitting on her customary bucket taking a break, drinking ... (Becky Wade)

I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch ... (Landon Donovan)

The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost ... (Theo Rossi)

Anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours. ... (Holly Lynn Payne)

The truth a fairly important thing to hold on to when you've been pulled out of the sea after wanting to drown in it. I could've let the sea take ... (Sarah Moore Fitzgerald)

A book had always been a door to another world ... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even ... (Lisa Kleypas)

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living ... (Joseph Campbell)

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in ... (Ellen DeGeneres)

There's no such thing as love at first sight. It's just called a crush. But if you know that person so well and you start falling for that person. Then ... (Isha Sharma)

It is striking how many spiritual writers react to the specificity of real prayer. It runs deeper than Greek Neoplatonism and the influence of Buddhist spirituality. Frankly, God makes us ... (Paul E. Miller)

She knew her duty inside and out. The prosperity of the cash drawer brought happiness to husband and wife. Not that Madame Puta was bad looking, not at all, she ... (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)

All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from ... (Halsey)

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of ... (Henry David Thoreau)

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations ... (Philippe Starck)

We bring champagne to Franklin and Jeffrey, and I offer a final toast, 'Wishing you all good things in your life together.' Short, simple, to the point. I look at ... (Steven Rowley)

There was another restaurant, rustic and small, with red checkered cloths on the tables, and a kitchen you could see into from the dining area, and they all were there ... (Scott Cawthon)

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations ... entangling alliances with none ... (Thomas Jefferson)

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation. ... (Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy)

So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat) ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Superman, Iron Man, Batman" - Flyaway Hair winces visibly - "you name it. Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class ... (Charles Stross)

Though Donald Trump won the presidency in part with the strong support of Catholics and Evangelicals, the idea that someone as robustly vulgar, fiercely combative, and morally compromised as Trump ... (Rod Dreher)

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring ... (Jane McGonigal)

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're ... (Tom Stoppard)

See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was an across-a-crowded-room kind of thing. A real moment, ... (Sarah Dessen)

The other night I took her on-out of pity-and what do you think the crazy bitch had done to herself? She had shaved it clean ... not a speck of ... (Henry Miller)

It was like hitting the snooze button on your alarm - your sleep in that window is never very good, since you know it's borrowed time, and that it will ... (Morgan Matson)

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. ... (William Rees-Mogg)

To achieve peace, destruction is delivered. To give the gift of freedom, one promises eternal imprisonment. Adjudication obviates the need for justice. This is a studied, deliberate embrace of diametric ... (Steven Erikson)

Mostly, though, he made people laugh, with wicked impersonations of everyone around him: clients, lawyers, clerks, even the cleaning woman. When Pickwick Papers came out, his former colleagues realized that ... (Simon Callow)

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)

I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits ... (Andy Daly)

You miss a lot of a person's life when you don't keep in touch. Maybe that's the point. ... (Bryant A. Loney)

The attachment to parental figures I am trying to describe here is an attachment to parents who have inflicted injury on their children. It is an attachment that prevents us ... (Alice Miller)

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest. ... (Eric Micha'el Leventhal)

There are only three motives for all crimes. Tibbs: money, power, and love. Sometimes those things get muddled together, of course, and you could argue that hunger is a bloody ... (Jessica Lawson)

It can't be that bad. I have to try it." I bit back a mad grin. I was so not going to stop her. "Uh, Ash, I really wouldn't suggest ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a ... (Jeanette Winterson)

And Vicky also told her sister that all girls at the Health Centre considered that men were born crazy, if not down-right stupid.They were prepared to do crazy things & ... (Nicholas Chong)

The sun will sink lower soon enough, turning the fields into open black space, ushering another day out, another day in one after the next. ... (Allison Winn Scotch)

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. ... (Horace Mann)

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do ... (Matt Groening)

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about ... (Graham Joyce)

That which we cannot see rules us," she said. She stared into her drink. "I mean particles, electrons, electromagnetic forces. Secrets. Love. Time. Fear. DNA. What we cannot see controls ... (Eric Bosse)

I have devoted my whole life to Physical Culture. I shall devote the rest too for the same. I have seen the degradation in which we are at present. I ... (Kodi Ramamurthy Naidu)