FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone. ... (Charlie Brooker)

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 of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic ... (Graham Fuller)

The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds ... (Gloria E. Anzaldua)

The cast is so big that you really don't work very much. ... (James Denton)

I would rather be right than President. ... (Henry Clay)

At least you know where you are with blood. At least other people can see it. ... (Emma Forrest)

I ran to Joe and pulled him in. I pushed my face into his jacket and breathed in the wool and dry-cleaning. Joe's height was always a narcotic for me, ... (Maria Semple)

I am a beautiful disaster just waiting to happen. ... (Scerina Elizabeth)

As much as I want you and want to be with you and part of you, I can't tear myself away from the realness of my responsibilities. If you force ... (Robert James Waller)

Kristen Stewart always looks like she's posing for pictures taken in a basement by her creepy uncle. ... (Chelsea Handler)

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. ... (William Shakespeare)

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles. ... (Gabriel Luna)

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. ... (Geoffrey Nunberg)

Then light your candles to the living. Say your prayers for the living. Leave the stones where they are, but take your heart with you. Your heart is not a ... (Kate Braestrup)

Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love ... (Saul Williams)

Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also ... (Bobby Knight)

Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin ... (John Bunyan)

This book is not for parents who want to raise a perfect child. You can probably make that kind of kid, but I don't think you should. I've met more ... (Brett Berk)

Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As ... (Umberto Eco)

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of ... (Reese Witherspoon)

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. ... (George Orwell)

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse. ... (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self. ... (Thich Nhat Hanh)

He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have ... (John Steinbeck)

Sometimes it's a struggle to make everything work. I usually work on music from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. Then there are the family activities. Then ... (Hans-Peter Lindstrom)

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue. ... (Jack McDevitt)

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop. ... (Jeffrey McDaniel)

#8 - Feeling Peaceful - It is helpful to be at peace with your loved one's returning Home to God, in order to be better able to receive a comforting ... (Christine Duminiak)

My friend Wicker once said to be careful what and how you say what you're really thinking to a woman. After much screwing up in that department with Emma, I've ... (Cyndi Goodgame)