FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said. ... (Nicholas Sparks)

I believe that the Last Emergency has not arrived without reason, nor are we now moving into the throes of it by accident. As the bearers of conscious self-awareness on ... (Carolyn Baker)

If there were a Pulitzer for bleak irony, however, it would go to the News for its Saturday-morning report on one of the most important local stories of the year ... (Erik Larson)

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better ... (George Alec Effinger)

One way to demonstrate courtship as a matter of course in an established relationship is to remember that courtship is the act of trying to persuade someone to choose you ... (Sarah Wendell)

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults. ... (Deb Caletti)

Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love ... (David Letterman)

Good girl?" he echoed in horror. "Eww. Way to waste a perfectly hot body. But ... the moment she turns slutty, I'm warning you, I'm going to be all over ... (Linda Kage)

The Love of a lonely wolf, full of secrets and strange midnights- drawn out of the darkness from hills thick with black oaks valleys riddled with riddles- that love is ... (Sandra Kasturi)

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. ... (William Shakespeare)

Saddam Hussein was a CIA operative whom the American spy agency deployed in 1959 to kill the ruler of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem. When that assassination attempt failed, Saddam entered ... (Anonymous)

Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They didn't understand that the world they ... (Lev Grossman)

People write books for children and other people write about the books written for children but I don't think it's for the children at all. I that all the people ... (Russell Hoban)

Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we've also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. ... (John Corey Whaley)

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, ... (Gina Sheridan)

Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it. ... (Nicola Sturgeon)

Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet nay, sometime more feet ... (William Shakespeare)

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending ... (Kathleen Hanna)

Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent ... (M.I.A.)

Not everything can be achieved alone. ... (Hanif Kureishi)

Edward: "Take that, you beef-witted varlet!" Gracie: "Who are you calling beef-witted?" she laughed at him. "Your mother was a hamster, and your father stank of elderberries! ... (Cynthia Hand)

Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published ... (Anne Lamott)

I've been taking it easy on you, kid, can tell you're having fun. But it's all sensation to you so far. I haven't pushed you, taken you out of yourself, ... (Anne Thomas)

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor. ... (John Hospers)

I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the ... (Wilson Rawls)

When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings. ... (Jodi Livon)

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a ... (Steven Morrissey)

I am AFRAID OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE... MAINLY BECAUSE WORDS LOSE WEIGHT... MAINLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PUT VALUE ON THEM. ... (Deyth Banger)

Empty in this dirt and flat on my back both hands gripped tightly and widely around my bare neck the truth of it all is i am very capable of ... (Craig Owens)

The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born. ... (Adrienne Rich)