FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single ... (Ruby Rose)

Who are we without our addictions; without our media-induced hungers? So often the voices we hear echoing in our mind are not our own but that of our influencers. Isolation, ... (L.M. Browning)

The British were unhinged by the colonists' unorthodox fighting style and shocking failure to abide by gentlemanly rules of engagement. One scandalized British soldier complained that the American riflemen 'conceal ... (Ron Chernow)

We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general ... (James Randi)

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. ... (Oliver Sacks)

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character. ... (Spencer W. Kimball)

Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold ... (Yasmin Mogahed)

Forget the buildings and the monuments. Let the softness of dark come in, all those light-years between stars and planets. Cities were the works of men but the earth before ... (Lydia Millet)

We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection ... (KoKo Nervelli)

To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just ... (Jerry Bridges)

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself. ... (Jhene Aiko)

Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can't TOUCH those feelings. Its like they belonged to someone ... (Bill Shapiro)

In fifteen years, Sachs traveled from one end of himself to the other, and by the time he came to that last place, I doubt he even knew who he ... (Paul Auster)

Think back for a moment on your own history not just where you were born or where you grew up, but the circumstances that contributed to your being right here, ... (Oprah Winfrey)

So what? You act all mysterious to seem more interesting?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're always wandering off or running away," he said. "But you're a lot more interesting ... (Jennifer E. Smith)

Warm honey, a shot of raw whiskey, and a little hot puff of smoke wafted from his mouth like a fine and rare brandy being decanted. -- Chloe San Valentine ... (Peggy Jaeger)

People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your ... (Bangambiki Habyarimana)

Only the forest." Blessing's voice is dismissive. "How can you say only the forest?" I ask, aghast. "No forest is only a forest. ... (Ashlee Willis)

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. ... (Denis Leary)

It took centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding Fathers. The system they established ... (Ayn Rand)

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves. ... (Thomas Sherlock)

In Brazil, there isn't just one beauty ideal. There's a lot of emphasis on a woman's natural beauty - but of course, Brazilian women love expressing their beauty through makeup. ... (Adriana Lima)

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a ... (William Shakespeare)

Maddie was about to follow when a girl beside her said, "Excuse me." Her hair was red, and her cheeks were dusted with light brown freckles. She had a mouth ... (Shannon Hale)

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to ... (Carrie Coon)

Luna Sea's music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy. ... (Josephine Yun)

It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled ... (David Edelstein)

[D]espite her alternative leanings, it turned out Crystal was not particularly psyco-babbly or airy-fairy or tree-huggy, as one might have expected. In fact, the first thing she did was write ... (Sarah-Kate Lynch)

I can easily go to America, or I can easily escape to some places in Europe with friends. But the place for me is the Philippines. The struggle is there. ... (Lav Diaz)

Luc would have put my head on a pike if you'd taken a hit." "How do you know I didn't?" I opened my mouth, then closed it again. "Did you?" ... (Chloe Neill)

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? pr.23.30 They that tarry long at the wine; ... (Anonymous)

I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they ... (Drew Sidora)

I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in jail more than once and ... (Raymond Chandler)

He cupped her face and held her still, as he looked into her brown eyes; she was all flash and no bang. She talked big, but when it came down ... (Elaine White)

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I figured I'd spend my first thousand years of Hell in some entry-level position, but after that I wanted to move into management. Be a real team player. Hell is ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be ... (Moby)

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke ... (Tim DeKay)

Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life. ... (Archibald Marwizi)

You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remember a time when you were not a ... (Nicholas Sparks)

Still, he could feel a fine cord stretched between them, a thin luminous fiber that ran from his chest all the way across the continent and forked into theirs. Never ... (Julie Orringer)

Now, over half of us live in an urban environment. My home, too, is here in the city of London. Looking down on this great metropolis, the ingenuity with which ... (David Attenborough)

I like you in my bed," Patch said. "I rarely pull down the covers. I rarely sleep. I could get used to this picture." "Are you offering me a permanent ... (Becca Fitzpatrick)

I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it. ... (Zachary Levi)

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never ... (Aberjhani)

Now, your mother and I made a deal when we first got married that if either one of us ever watched the 'wunnerful, wunnerful' Lawrence Welk Show or listened to ... (Christopher Paul Curtis)

How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put ... (Sophie Kinsella)

If he was a ghost in the life he remembered, Jeff thought, he was also a ghost in his present life, just the same way. Except, in all the fourteen ... (Cynthia Voigt)

Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all. ... (Barbara Park)

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. ... (Robert A. Heinlein)

One who gives himself/herself preeminently to the Word, neglecting prayer, will become heady and doctrinal-likely to quarrel about "points", and occupied with theoretical Christianity to the hurt of his soul ... (H. A Ironside)

What is the advantage of a nonverbal spell?" Hermione's hand shot into the air. Snape took his time looking around at everybody else, making sure he had no choice, before ... (J.K. Rowling)

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it. ... (Gregory Heisler)

Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon," or "Look at me, I'm a wizard," or ... (George r r martin)

How do I find joy in my homeschool journey? The answer is quite simple. I accept lots of God's grace. Grace to make mistakes. Grace to take a nap when ... (Tamara L. Chilver)

My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books ... (Lisa Greenwald)

Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love. ... (Rumi)

Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any ... (Jon Krakauer)

We got us a good sergeant, is what I'm saying.' Maybe nodded, and glanced back at Crump. 'You listening, soldier? Don't mess it up.' The tall, long-faced man with the ... (Steven Erikson)

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time. ... (Dennis Quaid)