Mention The Uses Quotes & Sayings

The eye of your mind - your intelligence; the eye of your heart - your conscience; and the eye of your soul - your instinct. — Melissa McPhail

Harry Potter," a voice says from my left. "Have you tried reading the Bible?" A woman, mid-forties, judgment scribbled all over her pinched, powdered face. Why do Bible lovers always have that constipated look on their face? Don't stereotype, Helena! I do my best to smile politely. "Is that the book where that lady turns into a statue after looking back at a burning city after God told her not to?" I say. "And where three defiant men are thrown into a furnace and don't burn. Oh, and isn't there a gal who feeds and puts to sleep the general of an enemy's army, and then uses a mallet to drive a tent peg into his brain?" She looks at me blankly. "But those are true. And that," she says, pointing to Harry, "is fiction. Not to mention devil worship." "Uh huh, uh huh. Devil worship? Is that like when the Israelites made a cow god of gold and worshipped it?" She's enraged. "You would love this book," I say, shoving The Goblet of Fire at her. "It's PG-rated compared to the Bible." "You, — Tarryn Fisher

Mhisery realized at that moment, her father was so far gone into alcoholism the bottle had become his lover - and Avery Bellemy was nothing if not faithful to his partner. He cherished the bottle above his family, above his business, above his good name, and well above his own health. Her father was now pouring all the love he had felt for their mother into a bottle — Shyloh Morgan

One never knows when inspiration will strike. Inspiration happens in a flash so pay attention. And then Go with it. Immediately. — Ruth Yunker

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees. — Michio Kaku

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. — Horace

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken. — Francoise Sagan

The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren't so germ-phobic with each other that we won't share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that. — Rachel Cohn

Two pages of the passive voice - just about any business document ever written, in other words, not to mention reams of bad fiction - make me want to scream. It's weak, it's circuitous, and it's frequently tortuous, as well. How about this: My first kiss will always be recalled by me as how my romance with Shayna was begun. Oh, man - who farted, right? A simpler way to express this idea - sweeter and more forceful, as well - might be this: My romance with Shayna began with our first kiss. I'll never forget it. I'm not in love with this because it uses with twice in four words, but at least we're out of that awful passive voice. — Stephen King

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist. — Tom Harkin

If only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place — Alina Radoi

May the bridges I burn light the way. — Melissa J. Rees

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. — Haruki Murakami

Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws? — David Mitchell

Things might have been different, but they could not have been better. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh. — Tamara Tunie

I love playing sport. — Damian Lewis