Elsevier Journal Finder Quotes & Sayings

sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth — Sara Shepard

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. — Laurie Anderson

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit! — Bill Maher

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today. — Tom Daley

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory. — Andrew Murray

My entire life, I've been fascinated with stories. To everyone else, it seemed like the story itself was enough. But I wanted to know why someone told the story in the first place. Had something happened? Or were they only wishing for something to happen? — Amber Lough

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual. — Prentice Mulford

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler? — Josephine Baker

I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day. — Adrienne Bailon

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away. — Primo Levi

The daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything is possible.

- Story, Robert McKee — Audrey Godwin

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster. — Thom Yorke

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. — Dean Inge

Tension seemed natural to her, not a sign of anxiety, but a sign of enjoyment ... — Ayn Rand