Zzounds Return Quotes & Sayings

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun. — Samuel L. Jackson

Never tell a depressed person to "Cheer up." Unless you want them to tell you to "Shut up. — Toni Sorenson

My greatest gratitude; I thank God for saving me from my sins. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think a writer is not an ideal husband ... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed. — Roy Blount Jr.

What is my true substance?
What will remain of me after my death?
Our life is as short as a raging fire:
flames the passer-by soon forgets,
ashes the wind blows away.
A man's life. — Omar Khayyam

That was the thing about playing with a band, Peter thought. There was always someone else to rescue you when it seemed certain you might fall behind. Only the solo acts left themselves open to those kinds of disasters. — Jennifer E. Smith

If I have learned anything it is that pity is more intelligent than hatred, that mercy is better than justice, that if one walks around the world with friendly eyes one makes good friends. — Philip Gibbs

No matter the feelings. You can transform the energy of your emotions into your power. — Matthew Donnelly

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship. — Winston Churchill

You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that they give you; they essentially index the pages based on the words that you're searching, and then they intersect that with the words in your query, and they use some tricks to figure out which pages are more important than others. But they don't understand anything. — Stuart J. Russell

Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Live happy, practice kindness, generate love, teach peace, stay grateful and in all that you are and do ... be great. — Timothy Pina

My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state. — Seal

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry

I'm going to be exposed, aren't I? (Acheron)
I don't know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don't want to go blind. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon