FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired. ... (Sugar Ray Leonard)

Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or ... (Ranbir Kapoor)

Loving she realises is a verb. It is an act. It is not enough to say you love someone, and then forget about them, or trust a relationship will stay ... (Jane Green)

Mayfield said, You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have ... (Patrick deWitt)

The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the ... (Barbara W. Tuchman)

My father then presented Honour with a cheque, "This is from our family for you, only you. Put it in a bank and if my son ever treats you badly, ... (Ruth Ahmed)

Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called 'Constitutional law,' much of ... (Thomas Sowell)

If you've ever taken a sub, you'll know they have available every luxury item the weary traveller could ever wish to purchase. Drinks, food, perfumes, clothes, blankets, anything. These compartments ... (G.R. Matthews)

Watching the way he treats you made me realize that maybe I had set my sights too low. After chasing someone who didn't give me the time of day ... ... (Amy Plum)

In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of closeness or liking, and a vertical one of hierarchy or status ... Now imagine yourself ... (Jonathan Haidt)

When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate ... (Alice Randall)

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. ... (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Mrs. Threadgoode laughed at the thought. Oh honey, I've buried my share, and each one hurt as bad as the last one. And there have been times when I've wondered ... (Fannie Flagg)

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always ... (Gabriel Mann)

The third klesha says that even with a healthy self-image we recoil from things that threaten our egos. These threats exist everywhere. I am afraid of being poor, of losing ... (Deepak Chopra)

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost ... (Pierre Bayle)

I feel like those people who say they can bungee jump, but when they're actually standing on the bridge, the reality of the situation hits them in the face." "Yeah, ... (Darynda Jones)

That night I lay in bed, thinking about how summer romances really do happen so fast, and then they're over so fast. But the next morning, when I went to ... (Jenny Han)

Rosy's mummy hands Franny a clear plastic bag full of reject biscuits, then Rosy holds her cheek out for Franny's wet kiss. Rosy wipes the slime from her face and ... (R.G. Manse)

But even now, especially now, it seems to me that women have a strength about them that men never had. And I wonder how did men always get portrayed in ... (Sarah Felix Burns)

Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has ... (Fulton J. Sheen)

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. ... (Danielle Steel)

I remember the smell of the pines and the sleeping on the mattresses of beech leaves in the woodcutters' huts and the skiing through the forest following the tracks of ... (Ernest Hemingway,)

Interrupting what promised to be a long spate of fatherly advice, St. Vincent said in a clipped voice, "It's not a love match. It's a marriage of convenience, and there's ... (Lisa Kleypas)

My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own limitations in terms of what instruments ... (Mirah)

For me, family means the silent treatment. At any given moment, someone is always not speaking to someone else.' Really,' I said. We're passive-aggressive people,' she explained, taking a sip ... (Sarah Dessen)

Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival ... (Jonathan Anthony Burkett)

Employ the power of positive quitting. Most of us view quitting as something negative, but it's not. 'Winners never quit,' we're told, when, in reality, winners quit all the time: ... (Jim Allen)

I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for ... (John Logan)

Here lies Morris, a good man and friend. He enjoyed the finer points of civilized life but never shied away from a hearty adventure or hard work. He died a ... (Patrick deWitt)

It is fine to be committed to work, but our minds need time to recover and our bodies need to move. ... (Annika Sorensen)

He held me against his body and his upper arm was close to my face, so I turned and bit him. He was so startled he actually released me and ... (Cora Reilly)

Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving me when we're little and old and surrounded by grandchildren. Promise that you'll ... (Maggie Osborne)

I mean ... we'd just passed our one-year dating anniversary. I figured I was a sort of long-term investment for her. She hoped I would pay dividends eventually; if I ... (Rick Riordan)

The associations get only richer and more intense when you realise that the very concept of truth - the cornerstone of philosophy and religion alike, let alone law - also ... (Robert Rowland Smith)

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now ... (Sara Shepard)

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. ... (Joss Whedon)

I don't feel the need to be the hot chick every second of the day. I like to be able to surprise people when I turn it on. I want ... (Ronda Rousey)

Hey, GreenHollyWood the mistake was mine that I added you as a friend... I thought that you are my friend... but your irony doesn't end. ... (Deyth Banger)

The outright propagandist sets up in me such a fury of opposition I am not apt to care much whether he has got his facts straight or not. He is ... (Katherine Anne Porter)

No, take more! What may be sworn by, both divine and human, Seal what I end withal! This double worship, Where [one] part does disdain with cause, the other Insult ... (William Shakespeare)

Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall, for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I ... (Thomas Pynchon)

Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to ... (David Foster Wallace)

You know what, Abigail? You're right - it is selfish. But there's nothing inherently immature about making a selfish choice. It is hard to put what you know is right ... (Dahlia Adler)

Two great prayers; Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities. Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen! ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

There is no such thing as forcing someone to be free. My obligation is not to my love for him but rather to what this love represents. My obligation is ... (Saleem Haddad)

People of very different opinions friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of conversation is the serial ... (Jack Lynch)

Falling for a person isn't a process. You can't plan for it in advance, or anticipate its arrival. Love strikes in single moments. Anywhere. Anytime. Some day you catch them ... (Beau Taplin)

Your self-worth and self-esteem cannot be changed by doing positive affirmations. If that were the case many people would be super confident and are not. It may appear to work ... (Kelly Martin)

The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all? ... (Hope Jahren)

Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do. The reasons are pretty obvious: If it's someone else's ... (Seth Godin)

So what? You act all mysterious to seem more interesting?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're always wandering off or running away," he said. "But you're a lot more interesting ... (Jennifer E. Smith)

Important safety tip," she said. "Thanks, Egon." When he gave her a blank look, she just smiled and waved him around the corner. "Talk amongst yourselves," she called to them. ... (Peter Clines)

When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors ... (Zach Braff)

The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it usually drags me into a dilemma whether, I ... (Mehek Bassi)

When I see someone not performing, I am frank enough to tell the person that it's not working out. I request him or her to leave or change jobs within ... (Subhash Chandra)

Dont feel too bad, Harry. People break-up everyday, its not the end of the world.. ... (Tony Parsons)

I've entered the looney bin," I told another unwitting customer, this one female. "It's always like that around here," the customer replied. "That's why I come, it's like walking into ... (Kristen Ashely)

A few years after you disappeared, a postal worker named Ben Carver was sentenced to death for murdering six young men. (He is a homosexual, which, according to Huckleberry, means ... (Karin Slaughter)