FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Dear Algebra, Stop asking us to find your X. She's not coming back, ... (Jessica Park)

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance the sense of duty. ... (Christian Nestell Bovee)

By comparison, the Integrated Human model of human nature, in addition to the two elements of our previous model, includes: A conscious analytic system, known as the slow brain (where ... (Fred Kiel)

It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One ... (Kristen Ashley)

But Balthamos couldn't tell; he only knew that half his heart had been extinguished. He couldn't keep still: he flew up again, scouring the sky as if to seek out ... (Philip Pullman)

Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the ... (Virginia Woolf)

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. ... (George Bernard Shaw)

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. ... (Robert Anton Wilson)

Because a promise is a promise, Officer Cavatone, and civilization is just a bunch of promises, that's all it is. A mortgage, a wedding vow, a promise to obey the ... (Ben H. Winters)

Imagine the spirit as a mansion. You'll guess we don't use many rooms. Apart from a few moments in childhood we don't dance around it in sunlight. But there's a ... (D.B.C. Pierre)

The shareholders who own the businesses in this book have other, nonfinancial priorities in addition to their financial objectives. Not that they don't want to earn a good return on ... (Bo Burlingham)

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she ... (Cecily von Ziegesar)

I will miss myself in relation to others. The rareness. The exceptional differences. I will miss the gift that comes with hardship and paying the price. I will miss the ... (Wheston Chancellor Grove)

But then that's an appropriate response to death?' I interrupted. 'There isn't a singular response. You keep on truckin', as that cartoonist Crumb said. You're probably having a thousand responses ... (Jim Harrison)

Social media is new to me and I didn't think I would like it, being very protective of my private space, but it's nice to connect to the love and ... (Michael Hyatt)

There were many such instances, when expressions of sympathy could not be exchanged. What do you say to someone who is telling you about the rape and murder of virgins ... (Azar Nafisi)

I had a question. 'Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?' The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. 'Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world,' ... (James Patterson)

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can. ... (Danny Boyle)

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig. ... (Tia Carrere)

We used to have a family game, invented by my sister and a friend of hers - it was called 'Agatha's Husbands'. The idea was that they picked out two ... (Agatha Christie)

The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple ... (Muriel Rukeyser)

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself. ... (Blanche Willis Howard)

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can ... (Dave Matthews)

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had ... (Winston Churchill)

I knew the legends of the birds. Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls. Was ... (Ruta Sepetys)

I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew. ... (John Varvatos)

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on ... (Richard Carmona)

The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency. It ... (Addison Wiggin)

Do you ever wonder why a battered wife stays with her husband? Why people continue to spend money they don't have even though they know they are deeply in debt? ... (Hugh Halter)

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ... (Samuel Johnson)