Favourite Personality Quotes & Sayings

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

You can tell who you are the way people respond to you. — Turcois Ominek

You could hear us?" Christiana asked with horror.
"I'm sure the whole house can hear you," she said dryly. "He roars like a lion, and you squeal like a stuck pig. — Lynsay Sands

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. — Charles Dudley Warner

It'll be okay. She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say? — Suzanne Weyn

A good example is the best sermon. — Benjamin Franklin

You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start. — Jeremy Denk

Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out-paces all things: we call it "thought." I can fill a room a with light before I'm anywhere near the switch. — Laurie Perez

But at midnight - strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin - then came the messenger. — Harriet Beecher Stowe