Derivation Of Common Quotes & Sayings

Let us be honest
we have praised Angulimala,
will make no difference
If you convey my salute to Amrapali. — Suman Pokhrel

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.' — Gene Wilder

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light — Alan Brennert

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question ... — Leo Tolstoy

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me. — Valerie June

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it. — Jeannette Walls

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't. — Gayle Forman

The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility. — Eugene H. Peterson

I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself. — Francis Collins

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy. — Shirley Bassey

I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself. — Sena Jeter Naslund

To succeed at anything, one must have a desire to dream of things some would think is impossible. — Ellen J. Barrier

Once he had identified the new new thing, all he needed was some really smart, passionate engineers to chase after it and make it happen. — Michael Lewis