FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!" ... (Rich Hall)

They spent the next hour nibbling their way through the food stalls, sharing spiral-cut potatoes, pork sandwiches, and cream puffs. They found a table in one of the many shaded ... (Amy E. Reichert)

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. ... (Lemony Snicket)

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal ... (John Calvin)

A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard ... (Dorothy Bryant)

We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within. ... (Jane Fulton Alt)

It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because you have to make a living. On the ... (Matt Dillon)

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you ... (Lynn Flewelling)

But it was not a new idea. We call out; we are answered. It has been that way from the beginning of belief, and it continues to this very moment. ... (Mitch Albom)

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries. ... (Michael Ruhlman)

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis. ... (Dave Barry)

He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially not in a sugary way but in a businesslike ... (Stephen King)

All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things ... (Sylvain Cappell)

I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an end. I could name the very moment when it had ... (Graham Greene)

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization. ... (Mark Pesce)

Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who ... (James Allen)

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. ... (Ivy Compton-Burnett)

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom. ... (Jack Kornfield)

Newrose, oldrose, Queen Anne's lace. Water, river, stone, and sun. Wind over hill, under tree. Past the border none can see. Climbing into dark for you Will you wait in ... (Ally Condie)

Custom reconciles us to every thing. ... (Edmund Burke)

Perhaps, after all, it is Christianity that is sane and all its critics that are mad - in various ways. I tested this idea by asking myself whether there was ... (G.K. Chesterton)

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically. ... (Ajay Naidu)

I jumped up from the bed and paced the small space in front of Romeo. He was absolutely nuts. "Why the hell would you do that?" I asked. Then I ... (Cambria Hebert)

Connor pockets his cell. "Lily," he says. "If I wanted to date for a last name, I'd have a girl on my arm every single day. I would never be ... (Krista Ritchie)

The futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it ... (Jane Austen)

To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to ... (jayne mansfield)

Begin morning run," I said to Max. "Bifrost track." The virtual gym vanished. Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry ... (Ernest Cline)

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.' ... (Mohamed El-Erian)

And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over narrator of adolescence. The bitter, voice-over ... (Joanna Pearson)

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the "picture" end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)