Booklist Online Quotes & Sayings

I want to be different. Just like all the other different people I want to be like. I want to be just like all the different people and assert my individuality along with others who are different like me. — John S. Hall

Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes. — Barbara Warren

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. — Elizabeth I

Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer. — Margaret Atwood

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. — Ezra Stiles

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid. — Rafael Nadal

At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn't own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack. — Magdalena Frackowiak

I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet! — Uzo Aduba

If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson. — Thom Yorke

Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue. — Mason Cooley

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. — Gwendolyn Brooks

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one. — Edward O. Wilson