FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Edith's clothes were flung in disarray on the floor beside the bed, the covers of which had been thrown back carelessly; she lay naked and glistening under the light on ... (John Edward Williams)

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent. ... (John Robbins)

A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won't go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won't go, there is no ... (Gilbert Murray)

I think about having you spread over my face," I said. "And taking you on the floor just inside my apartment because I can't wait long enough to get us ... (Christina Lauren)

I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I ... (Rand Paul)

Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best ... (Kazuo Ishiguro)

But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she's not beautiful. There's a certain set to the jaw and arch to the ... (Terry Pratchett)

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I ... (Raymond Carver)

God: Check out this human I designed. Angel: Wow, that looks pretty incredible. How does it work? God: It's pretty complicated. Point to something and I'll tell you what it ... (Simon Rich)

What are your pleasures and pursuits, Lord Moncrieffe?" Miss Eversea asked too brightly, when the silence had gone on for more than was strictly comfortable or polite. That creaky conversation ... (Julie Anne Long)

If I am asked, What do you propose to substitute for universal suffrage? Practically, What have you to recommend? I answer at once, Nothing. The whole current of thought and ... (James Fitzjames Stephen)

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk. ... (Leon Spinks)

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding ... (Peter Ustinov)

The God of impotence made her eyes flame. Mine too. I thought: I am going to die. Whoever sees God must die. It is written in the Bible. I had ... (Elie Wiesel)

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us. ... (Wendell Berry)

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died. ... (Don McLean)

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ... (George Washington)

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever ... (Alan Ashley-Pitt)

You must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs. ... (Teresa of Avila)

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten. ... (Rachel Zucker)

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, ... (Pedro Almodovar)

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and ... (Emma Watson)

Any competent actor could have done what I did. ... (Larry Hovis)

Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad. ... (Marissa Mayer)

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back. ... (Ian McEwan)

People don't keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell but they want everyone to know. ... (Marilyn Manson)

To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish ... (J. B. Smoove)

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty. ... (Stephen King)

Writing is really a way of thinking not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. ... (Toni Morrison)