Favrite Quotes & Sayings

He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself. — Jack London

I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way. — Donna Tartt

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it. — Lawrence Tierney

I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest. — Donald Miller

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

God and God alone deserves all the credit for the good that takes place in our lives. — Bob Coy

Thanks, Mom, I whispered. And with the knowledge that my mom believed in me even if the rest of the world didn't, I headed for the door. — Kim Harrison

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. — Elisabeth Marbury

The probable is what usually happens. — Aristotle.

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. — Carl Sagan

I never go see a comic. The only one I'd ever really want to see is Don Rickles. He might be 80 years old, but he blows everyone out of the water. — Andrew Dice Clay

My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells. — Harry Lloyd

I am the master of my destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita