FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

And there's nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you'll ever meet, and ... (Catherynne M Valente)

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall ... (James Russell Lowell)

I never interrupt people when they're speaking because I know only too well how annoying it is. But with my every brattish interjection, the dimples deepened at the corner of ... (Alexis Hall)

I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never ... (Guillermo Diaz)

Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that ... (Groucho Marx)

Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drink, he had better lay in a couple thousand tablets of ... (Dean Koontz)

Why does he look at me like this? Why like THIS? Like he wants inside me as much as I want him. Like he wants more than my body, like ... (Katy Evans)

A key legitimator is the perception that the system is set up in such a way that a person, and more importantly the person's adversaries, face a constant chance of ... (Steven Pinker)

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous. ... (Laura Pedersen)

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity. ... (David Sedaris)

Insist that the work be done in very truth and it will be done. The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective. ... (A.W. Tozer)

I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward. ... (Patty Murray)

I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that ... (Peter Kay)

And now the First Wizard claimed it carried no real power at all? "Magic is not the only power in this world," the old mage said gently, handing the horn ... (Robin Sloan)

When they discover the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to discover that they are not it. ... (Bernard Bailey)

There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or ... (Rebecca Solnit)

I've realized therapy is incredibly therapeutic. ... (Lisa Schroeder)

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change. ... (Isha Judd)

Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper ... and ... (Mary Cantwell)

The man drew his foot back and kicked Mark in the ribs. Pain exploded in his side and he cried out, unable to help himself. The man kicked him again, ... (James Dashner)

Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true. ... (Philippa Gregory)

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving ... (Andrew Luck)

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and ... (Sherman Alexie)

I was a food junkie. ... (Mo'Nique)

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf ... (Marvela Dawnay)

Daughter of my heart,' was the message Brimstone sent just for Karou. She wanted to cry again right here in the court, thinking of it. 'Twice-daughter, my joy. Your dream ... (Laini Taylor)

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. ... (John F. Akers)

He put a bullet through the forehead of the starving idiot face. ... (Stephen King)

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ... (Violeta Parra)

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even ... (Marita Golden)