4690 Quotes & Sayings

'Grey's Anatomy' has given me a lot of security, especially as my kids have grown older. Plus, for the last eight years, I didn't have to get on a plane and go to do a job out of town or in another part of the world. — Justin Chambers

The city of Jahilia is built entirely of sand, its structures formed of the desert whence it rises. It is a sight to wonder at: walled, four-gated, the whole of it a miracle worked by its citizens, who have learned the trick of transforming the fine white dune-sand of those forsaken parts, - the very stuff of inconstancy, - the quintessence of unsettlement, shifting, treachery, lack-of-form, - and have turned it, by alchemy, into the fabric of their newly invented permanence. — Salman Rushdie

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids. — Margaret Atwood

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal. — Rob Schwimmer

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines. — Romesh Gunesekera

All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Blood shed stands, therefore, not for the release of life from the burden of the flesh, but for the bringing to an end of life in the flesh. — Alan Stibbs

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are. — Fred Barnes

Well, best to remain vigilant. It's when everything is calm that you need to be most alert. — Brandon Sanderson

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too. — P.C. Cast