Substantively Significant Quotes & Sayings

Fame is not like a jacket. You can't put it on and then take it off. — Victoria Beckham

I think that period dramas just need zombies. — Lily James

I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom ... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen. — Freddy Adu

A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having ... if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud. — Neil Gaiman

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game. — Jerry Rice

This loneliness won't leave me alone. — Otis Redding

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. — Ira Glass

Life bites like a dog. — Janusz Korczak

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. — Henry Louis Gates

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it. — Susan Butcher

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that. — Jo Brand

Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it. — Nicola Yoon

They're hopes and wishes and reminders and all the times I smiled, knowing he'd remembered me while he was gone. — Penelope Douglas

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives. — Charles Dickens