FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. ... (Harper Lee)

He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They ... (Karl Marlantes)

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. ... (Kim Harrison)

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians. ... (Luka Sulic)

Upright, she's slapped with the aroma of musk and sweat. It's the good hunky, 'shirtless man building a dollhouse for his daughter' kind of perspiration, not the 'he just mowed ... (Sandy Ward Bell)

I try not to be angry, bitter at the unfairness of it all. I wish I could make sense of it. I once met an ex-Iranian pilot who was traveling ... (Max Brooks)

I don't ever use dancers, and when I do, it's literally, like, four break dancers. ... (Rita Ora)

My brothers are idiots. Anyone can see that under the scars and the attitude, Isabeau is more fragile than she looks. And as a reclusive Hound princess, her first introduction ... (Alyxandra Harvey)

Dementia to come forward to capture the financial mind. It is also the time generally required for a new generation to enter the scene, impressed, as had been its predecessors, ... (John Kenneth Galbraith)

Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled. ... (Herman Melville)

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? ... (Alexander Pope)

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. ... (William Wordsworth)

It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these ... (Haruki Murakami)

We face many crossroads in our lives. God wants us to be that beacon of faith to those around us. He shows us his love like a rainbow on a ... (Phil Mitchell)

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men ... (Woodrow Wilson)

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands. ... (John Hay)

And after winter folweth grene May. ... (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful adventure stories. ... (David E. Fessenden)

I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me. ... (Jessica Hecht)

Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun. ... (Kirk Kerkorian)

How we live as leaders matters. ... (Michael Hyatt)

'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions ... (Darell Hammond)

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case. ... (St. Jerome)

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at ... (Ariel Dorfman)

It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people ... (C. JoyBell C.)

The fruits of one's sweat and mental labour are always rewarding ... (Haile Selassie)

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace. ... (Cassandra Clare)

But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It's as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches ... (Anna McPartlin)

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their ... (Meriwether Lewis)

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do. ... (Marilyn Vos Savant)