FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it ... (Margaret Atwood)

The Declaration of Independence ... is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto - revelation, if you will - declaring not for this nation only, but ... (Ezra Taft Benson)

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile. ... (Honore de Balzac)

That wreck, and everything on it, is mine. You made a big mistake, and not a healthy one for either you or your pretty companion. Pia heaved a sigh. He ... (Thea Harrison)

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them. ... (T Jay Taylor)

If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what ... (Jack Kerouac)

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. ... (Sonny Bono)

Life without purpose, is time without meaning. ... (Kiley Callaway)

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; ... (Walt Whitman)

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself. ... (Joshua Bell)

Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany? ... (Tacitus)

The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever ... (Gordon Ramsay)

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the ... (Antonin Artaud)

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could ... (Shane Larkin)

Without promotion, something terrible happens ... nothing! ... (P.T. Barnum)

This is a part of post-college life that nobody ever warns you about. Your social life is no longer dropped into your lap by virtue of shared classes and extracurricular ... (Lauren Layne)

Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way. He is extremely generous as well. How many ... (Bob Lilly)

Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will ... (Will Smith)

It's okay to be a blow stick. Sometimes we need to break before we glow. ... (Taylor Smith)

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever ... (Peter Hain)

Negative habits eat you up. They're the biggest roadblocks that prevent you from realising your fullest potential; and the very first step towards crafting real change is to become aware ... (Manprit Kaur)

In the darkness of a thousand withered souls, it was Er Lang's hand that I sought, and his voice that I longed to hear. Perhaps it is selfish of me, ... (Yangsze Choo)

Wisdom: Oh, fantastic. We've got an army made up of fairies and Beatles, and we're fighting H. G. Wells' martians and bloody Jack the Rippers. Who's next? Dick Van Dyke? ... (Paul Cornell)

The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to ... (Lisa Kleypas)

He couldn't have what he'd once had; he'd already destroyed it. ... (Brenda Novak)

Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality. ... (John C. Maxwell)

Isn't a hair, you can't just pull it out. And no ritual can make it stick. Why cry over it? Who ... (Svetlana Alexievich)

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up ... (Damian Lewis)

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits. ... (Donald Freed)

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities. ... (Bob Graham)