FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars ... (Oscar Wilde)

Marilla!" Anne sat down on Marilla's gingham lap, took Marilla's lined face between her hands, and looked gravely and tenderly into Marilla's eyes. "I'm not a bit changed - not ... (L.M. Montgomery)

She ordered white wine, and I ordered Schweppes tonic water without the booze. The drinks came, and I took a hit. The first thing she said was, "I don't know ... (Robert Hobkirk)

Is the invisible presence of the Christian fellowship a reality and a help to the individual? Is the Word of God close to him as a comfort and a strength? ... (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. ... (Trevor Noah)

Highway: Just because we're holding hands doesn't mean we'll be taking warm showers together until the wee hours of the morning. Sgt Gunnery Highway to Stitch Jones in Heartbreak Ridge ... (Clint Eastwood)

I lost myself immediately in one of the books, only emerging when the phone rang. "Dashiell?" my father intoned. As if someone else with my voice might be answering the ... (Rachel Cohn)

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger. ... (Josh Billings)

I felt that something horrible was near from the moment that my foot first touched the water,' said Frodo. 'What was that thing, or were there many of them?' 'I ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

His day had been just like so many others - a boring as hell meeting in the morning, consisting of people going over the same conversations they'd already had via ... (Al K. Line)

When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights. ... (Ivanka Trump)

Life is a near-death experience. ... (George Carlin)

People generally have three reactions to the gospel, to hearing the name of Jesus; they either are drawn to it like fireflies drawn to a flame, they run away from ... (Lisa Bedrick)

To The Lilies among Thistles, Just like a lily, a beautiful life does not just happen overnight. It is built daily through informed choices, commitment, faith and prayer. The journey ... (Mary Maina)

However, although The Da Vinci Code did a whole heap of things defectively, it did one thing stupefyingly well - the plot. It was as though Brown had jettisoned all ... (Andy Miller)

I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a ... (Sue Monk Kidd)

The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ... (Nikita Khrushchev)

You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you ... (Shawn Achor)

What Tyler says about the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy something beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children. The blueprints of your House ... (Sarah Ban Breathnach)

All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands ... (Dorothee Solle)

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children. ... (Alan Alda)

[T]he more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn't training us for a calm ... (Scott Lynch)

McDonald's, meanwhile, continues busily to harass small shopkeepers and restaurateurs of Scottish descent for that nationality's uncompetitive predisposition toward the Mc prefix on its surnames. The company sued the McAl ... (Naomi Klein)

Mental discipline, prayer and remoteness from the world and its disturbing visions reduce temptation to a minimum, but they can never entirely abolish it. In medieval traditions, abbeys and convents ... (Patrick Leigh Fermor)

I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. 'Who authorized this?' the principal ... (Howie Mandel)

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields. ... (Harbhajan Singh)

There are going to be times in our lives when someone else gets an unexpected blessing or receives some special recognition. May I plead with us not to be hurt ... (Jeffrey R. Holland)

I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet ... (Robin S. Sharma)

And it's so pretty and secluded," went on Mrs. Digby, "with these glorious rhododendrons. Look how pretty they are, all sprayed with the water like fairy jewels and the rustic ... (Dorothy L. Sayers)

I'd gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn't get much better than ... (Amanda Carlson)

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power ... (Jane Austen)

Prayer: Father God, I can't thank You enough for all that You have given me. I have so much to be thankful for. My barns are overflowing, and grain is ... (Emilie Barnes)

The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of ... (Alison Moyet)

When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the middle of hell from Auschwitz, to let the ... (Laszlo Nemes)

I know that a lot of our successes came because we had pure intentions and great talent, and we did a lot of things right, but I also believe that ... (Ed Catmull)

In a society of increasingly mass-produced, assembly-line entertainment, where every individual is treated like an empty pitcher to be filled from above, jazz retains something of the spirit of the ... (Marshall W. Stearns)

My own memories of the vimanas during my lifetime as Yudhisthira are that they were basically leftovers from a golden age several thousand years before when India was a colony ... (Michael K Jaco)

Deputy Grayson?" He turned to stare down into those soft green eyes, his pulse ratcheting up. "Yes, Miss Smith?" "Thank you." She touched his arm. "And no matter what happens, ... (Elle James)

Don't be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don't stop dreaming. ... (Auliq Ice)

The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] ... (Michael Horton)

We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. ... (Camille Paglia)

I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton ... (Guido Palau)

If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology. ... (Don DeLillo)

I try to keep myself busy. I always hang out with my family and friends and my dogs. Go to the beach. Go swimming. Go get exercise. Go on a ... (Colbie Caillat)

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else. ... (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Floridians are a strong, resilient people. We are fortunate to live in a great state where all Floridians enjoy opportunities to get a great job and a world-class education. ... (Rick Scott)

When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn ... (Holly Hurd)

Alex rolled his eyes. "It's just a house party, Ror. I didn't promise you ... whatever the opposite of a sausage fest is." Rory grinned unashamedly. "An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet? ... (Erin Lawless)

No Finn, ya ding-dong! -Princess Bubblegum ... (Paige Moss)

Today, I am glad that I'm me - I'm glad that I was born who I am, that I've learned what I've learned, and that I've become who I am. ... (Tom Walsh)

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, ... (Ray Bradbury)

That's oak leaf, for bravery. I've got Veronica and Honeysuckle, for fidelity and affection. And that's Peony, for shame. She lives under this rock." "Did you make that up by ... (Neil Gaiman)

Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around ... (Jerry Spinelli)

All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole ... (Fyodor Tyutchev)

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching. ... (Brian Lindstrom)

The amazing thing, when she came to do the long-postponed Egypta in 1910, after she had won international fame, was that she did indeed do a work which was not ... (Walter Terry)

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves. ... (Martin O'Malley)

Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that ... (Mary Ellen Snodgrass)

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to ... (Felicity Huffman)