46342 Quotes & Sayings

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. — Mason Cooley

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?' — Matthew McConaughey

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage. — Honore De Balzac

If there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better. — Jose Saramago

Shame on those who remain unmoved, whose pace fails to quicken, on entering one of these old habitations, a manor-house falling to wrack and ruin or a desecrated church! — Petrus Borel

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. — Queen Elizabeth II

Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours. — Robert Jordan

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio ... radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary. — Garrison Keillor

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is because these people walk incorrectly with the last vertebra of their tailbone. They stick it out instead of pulling it in and down. — Romana Kryzanowska

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. — Sarah Palin

It's Christmas, and no matter what historical usage you choose to assign to "mass" be it mission or Lord's Supper, Christ's Mass refers to WHY he came, not THAT he came. Christ's mission was to be a sacrifice. — William Branks

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it. — Mel Gibson