FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. ... (Martin Short)

In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the ... (Chase Twichell)

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. ... (Orhan Pamuk)

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives. ... (Terry Brooks)

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. ... (James McBride)

She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words. That's why she could climb higher than anyone ... (Markus Zusak)

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. ... (Michael Bloomberg)

The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on ... (Gerald Arpino)

One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the ... (Dada Bhagwan)

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop ... (J.G. Ballard)

No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to ... (Libba Bray)

God, do I love a sexy man who brings me donuts, ... (Maria K. Alexander)

Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the ... (Elif Shafak)

I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams. ... (William Friedkin)

And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would ... (Sylvia Plath)

Exactly what she was doing - tears leaked from the corners of her eyes and wove crooked paths down her cheeks. How could she have been so insensitive to her ... (Debbie Macomber)

Dark wings, dark words. ... (George r r martin)

Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part ... (Jenny B. Jones)

The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you ... (Natalie Babbitt)

I rolled my eyes."Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you." "Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before. ... (Alexandra Adornetto)

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. ... (Joyce Carol Oates)

If you are crying fight against it! If you are regretting walk forward! Only complaining about your misfortune, you're nothing but a common pig! ... (Yana Toboso)

Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer ... (George W. Bush)

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it ... (Kate Bush)

Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads. ... (Boonaa Mohammed)

Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and build from the rubble of their betrayal ... ... (F. Sionil Jose)

There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why. ... (Israelmore Ayivor)

Were you acquainted with me, you would know that my failings are equal to my victories. On my own, I am no more than a pauper. It is the Prince ... (Chuck Black)