Exceldent Quotes & Sayings

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. — John Lee Hooker

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Trust in God, always take care of each other. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way. — Janet Street-Porter

Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the beauty remaining to her after so many hardships; for, as everyone knows, the beauty of some women has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by chance causes; and naturally the emotions of the mind will heighten or impair it, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

And from then on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent,
Devouring the green azure where, like a pale elated
Piece of flotsam, a pensive drowned figure sometimes sinks;
Where, suddenly dyeing the blueness, delirium
And slow rhythms under the streaking of daylight,
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than our lyres,
The bitter redness of love ferments! — Rimbaud Arthur

True bondage is being afraid and ashamed of your shadow. — K.A. Hosein

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people ... — Gene Stratton-Porter

Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination. — John C. Maxwell

What stops them is that as soon as they give the word "end" its double meaning of goal and fulfillment they clearly perceive this ambiguity of their condition, which is the most fundamental of all: that every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life. — Simone De Beauvoir

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. — Emily Giffin

Cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music. — Edith Wharton

Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget. — Ray A. Davis