32333 Quotes & Sayings

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love. — Albert Hammond Jr.

We are searching for the same thing," Stripey said.
"How do you know?" Janco asked.
"I read his mind." The Sitian pointed to Ari. "Yours was too ... chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through."
A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened. — Maria V. Snyder

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. — George Herbert

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. — Nelson Mandela

It's the fear of what's in the dark that scares us, not the dark itself. Thanks, ancient Chinese philosophers. You guys are the best. And the deadest. But mostly the best. Jack's — Sara Wolf

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men. — Steve Israel

What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

We do not know what the future of Europe will be. Here we must agree with Toynbee, that the fate of a society always depends on its creative minorities. Christian believers should look upon themselves as just such a creative minority, helping Europe to reclaim what is best in its heritage and thereby to place itself at the service of all humankind. — Pope Benedict XVI

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves. — Amelia Barr

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another. — Parker Stevenson

My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always. — Rabih Alameddine

I'll drop you back to test driver so fast it will make your bra snap. — Doug Solter

Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing. — Dennis Lehane