FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I've always been influenced by the human form. I'm a big fan of that Shakespeare quote. I tend to leave out the bad part of the paragon of animals quote, ... (Zack Snyder)

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to ... (Muhammad)

The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves. ... (Nikki Rowe)

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods ... (John F. Kennedy)

Being the head of the home isn't the same as controlling," David said. "It means being the spiritual leader. The Scripture you may have heard is from Ephesians: 'Wives, submit ... (Beth Wiseman)

We do this thing. We open our hearts to the world around us. And the more we do that, the more we allow ourselves to love, the more we are ... (Stuart McLean)

But I remember the strange dragon's eyes, the look on his face as he stared it me, the way my blood had warmed at the sight of him. I remembered ... (Julie Kagawa)

When I initially met with Robert I was just so excited to meet the guy. I was able to go to Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas and just hanging out ... (Joel McHale)

Have never come across a coherent notion of bad or good, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable that did not depend upon some change in the experience of conscious creatures. ... (Sam Harris)

These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness regardless of what they were doing. But therefore ... (Banana Yoshimoto)

Don't let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you ... (Ernest Agyemang Yeboah)

At this, the duke stopped mid-step and nearly choked with laughter. "Beg your pardon, Sheffield." He cast a speaking glance at his sister then turned his merry gaze back to ... (Erica Ridley)

A great philosopher once said: 'We are what we Contemplate' And in these modern times when mankind is constantly confronted with images of conflict and world disasters, it seems very ... (Ginger Gilmour)

Some people wouldn't see a traitor when they looked at me. Some people would see a survivor. Call me anything you like - I sleep fine at night. But you ... (Karen Marie Moning)

I love really exploring ... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the ... (Ethan Hawke)

We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the ... (M.J. Rose)

Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert to her next disaster. Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she became resourceful. She grudgingly noticed ... (G.G. Renee Hill)

When we were doing interviews for our bio, I described hearing that song for the first time to be like Sara was standing on my chest. I just felt really ... (Tegan Quin)

You attract others with your inner lights of positivity, love, and kindness. ... (Debasish Mridha)

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no ... (Criss Jami)

I remember watching 'Colombo' a lot with my dad. That was one of the first detective shows I remember watching. And I remember my dad turning to me - my ... (Stephanie Beatriz)

It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I ... (Steve Ballmer)

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name, mostly because I never have a ... (Rick Riordan)

Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, What governments failed ... (John Gaddis)

Whoever's reading this out there - you deserve to have someone's hands be glued to you, for their eyes to be stuck on you. You deserve for their face to ... (Seth King)

The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in ... (Dick Morris)

I was finally tired of hiding behind bravado. My family had hurt me so many times that I had started to lie about my feelings to everyone. To Sarah. To ... (T.B. Markinson)

There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through ... (Melody Beattie)

Turgot turned out to be correct regarding this chilling prophecy: "War we ought to shun as the greatest of evils, since it will render impossible for a very long time, ... (Sarah Vowell)

I WILL NOT TRUST IN RICHES Wealth has some pretty powerful side effects. If wealth were an over-the-counter medicine, there would be bold warnings printed on the packaging. Warning: May ... (Andy Stanley)

We keep waiting for another Mahatma to make a difference in our society and nation. Well it is time to stop waiting. The mantra is "I change to change India". ... (Jeroninio Almeida)

Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life's good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to ... (Gina Greenlee)

Had I life to live over, I see now where I could do more; but neighbour, believe me, my highest aspiration is to be a clean, thrifty housekeeper, a bountiful ... (Gene Stratton-Porter)

I felt overwhelmed. I didn't expect a first kiss to be so ... life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly ... (Colleen Houck)

Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't ... (Lily Tomlin)

The Child Angel Let your life come amongst them like a flame of light, my child, unflickering and pure, and delight them into silence. They are cruel in their greed ... (Rabindranath Tagore)

The second reason for the failure of industrial agriculture is its wastefulness. In natural or biological systems, waste does not occur. And it is easy to produce examples of nonindustrial ... (Wendell Berry)

Gibreel, the tuneless soloist, had been cavorting in moonlight as he sang his impromptu gazal, swimming in air, butterfly-stroke, breast-stroke, bunching himself into a ball, spreadeagling himself against the almost-infinity ... (Salman Rushdie)

When we have no memory or little imagination of an alternative to a life centered on work, there are few incentives to reflect on why we work as we do ... (Kathi Weeks)

More often than not, at the end of the day (or a month, or a year), you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try something ... (Edward Frenkel)

He thinks I'm having trouble expressing my feelings, which is why he suggested I write in a journal - to get it out, he said, like in the old days ... (Cynthia Hand)

We think we value mothers in America, but we don't. We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is just a kind of woman, after ... (Katha Pollitt)

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with ... (Henry Fielding)

God's story is our ontology: it explains our nature, our essence, our beginnings and our endings, our qualities, and our attributes. When we daily read our Bibles, in large chunks ... (Rosaria Champagne Butterfield)

My Mother My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. She had what it's called natural wisdom, bless her precious ... (Euginia Herlihy)

If you are lucky you will find something you love, if youre really lucky youll find someone to pay you for it ... (James Patterson)

If you don't keep your country clean, nobody can do that for you. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

I love all of these new products that are coming out, things like headphones with cute, catchy names. There is also so much going on with the marketing of fashion. ... (Stephanie Seymour)

When you are able to love yourself deeply, you can be kind to others. ... (Debasish Mridha)

If thou wilt be well with GOD, and have grace to rule thy life, and come to the joy of love: this name JESUS, fasten it so fast in thy ... (Richard Rolle)

As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human ... (Robert Boyle)

Christmas, so joyfully celebrated within our hearts and within the hearts of countless others. ... (Eleesha)

I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the ... (Kristen Stewart)

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment ... (Albert Pike)

Fuller Warren had won the 1948 election by running as a moderate and promising to ease racial tension and violence in Florida. He'd denounced the Klansmen who paraded through Lake ... (Gilbert King)

Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I ... (Greg Giraldo)

The only reason you brought me here tonight was because you thought it would appease me. Throw the vicious dog a bone and it'll soon be eating out of your ... (Natasha Anders)

Jacque leaned over and whispered in Sally's ear, "I give it two days before he lays one on her." "You're being generous. I say less than twenty four hours." "Is ... (Quinn Loftis)

Jesus, Dean. I don't know why you have me around with her watching your back" "You're just jealous. But don't worry. One day you too will have your very own ... (Marjorie M. Liu)

Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood. ... (Auliq Ice)