Contempory Quotes & Sayings

Art has more ego to it than what I do. — Eva Zeisel

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. — Mark Gatiss

I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city. — Hines Ward

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It's a must have. — Marci Shimoff

I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life. — Chelsea M. Cameron

At least two of those present tonight were wearing Granny Weatherwax's famous goose-grease-and-sage chest liniment. — Terry Pratchett

If you can give up the thing behind the door, the lock will be opened by itself! Sometimes giving up is the best key! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside. — Karen Salmansohn

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life. — Frederick Lenz

the smell of resin filled the air. A thrush was singing somewhere. Late harebells were thick among the grass, and small blue butterflies moved over the white flowers of the blackberry. There was a hive of wild bees under the roof of the chapel; their humming filled the air, the sound of summer's end. Through — Mary Stewart

Love is rare and hard to find and takes years upon years to develop. Teenagers don't fall in love. — Kody Keplinger

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there. — Dan Hill

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. — Nevil Shute

A poignant example of what it often takes to bring about an end to a superstitious barbaric act may be seen in the Indian practice of suttee, or the burning of widows. The British government abolished suttee by outlawing it, and followed up by severely punishing transgressors. As the nineteenth-century British commander in chief in India, General Charles Napier, told his charges who complained that suttee was their cultural custom that the British should respect: Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs. — Michael Shermer

I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace. — Daisaku Ikeda

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. — Steve Earle

Darkness will always be...its own master... — C.K. Mullinax

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song. — John Prine

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva