Orkut Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing. — Anthony Hopkins

The act of composition is a series of discoveries. — E.L. Doctorow

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well. — Frankie Avalon

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle. — Rita Mae Brown

Dana had four beautiful eyes. She wore glasses. But her eyes were so beautiful that the glasses only made her prettier. With two eyes she was pretty. With four eyes she was beautiful. With six eyes she would have been even more beautiful. And if she had a hundred eyes, all over her face and her arms and her feet, why, she would have been the most beautiful creature in the world. — Louis Sachar

An associate of mine named William Congreve once wrote a very sad play that begins with the line 'Music has charms to sooth a savage beast,' a sentence which here means that if you are nervous or upset, you might listen to some music to calm you down or cheer you up. For instance, as I crouch here behind the alter of the Cathedral of the Alleged Virgin, a friend of mine is playing a sonata on the pipe organ, to calm me down and so that the sounds of my typewriter will not be heard by the worshipers sitting in the pews. The mournful melody of the sonata reminds me of a tune my father used to sing when he did the dishes, and as I listen to it I can temporarily forget six or seven of my troubles. — Lemony Snicket

People's lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may make the difference between a life of happiness and one of sorrow — Alexander McCall Smith

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability. — Lisa Kleypas

I do the same with my books ... Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who's already said all they have to say on the subject. — Betsy Cornwell

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of. — Jane Austen

Love is the dissolution of the illusion of separation. — Shaun Chamberlin

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable. — Susan Orlean

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know? — CeeLo Green