Bigcharts My Favorite Quotes & Sayings

Words can split logs and start fires and break stones, but they can also hug you and warm you and fight the wars you don't have the strength to fight. — David Estes

Too often, especially in democratic societies, people mistook the mechanisms of power for power itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like. — Chris Lowe

It's too bad the word miracle has been overused, because I swear it's the only word that fit the feeling of holding my daughter in my arms. My heart swelled to the size of the world. — James Patterson

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish! — Ashwin Sanghi