FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the ... (Max Delbruck)

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. ... (Vilayanur S. Ramachandran)

Every sorrow is different, but you get through 'em the same way. Plenty of rest, good food, and keeping your family and friends close by." She paused a minute. "A ... (Shannon Hitchcock)

Animals have this in common with one another: unlike humans they appear to spend every minute of every hour of every day of their lives being themselves. A tree frog ... (Stephen Fry)

I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. ... (Joseph Altuzarra)

Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self ... (S.M. Stirling)

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a ... (Alan Watts)

We do not know what it's like to be a bat, we do not know what it's like to be in coma. we can't even say that we know what ... (Daniel N. Robinson)

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for ... (Tess Gerritsen)

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds? ... (Kelly Nelson)

I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising discretion, being considerate, avoiding ... (Bernhard Schlink)

Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and repeatable ... (Jerzy Grotowski)

We drive down the road in complete silence for a few miles listening to 50 Cent. As soon as he tells us that he's into having sex, he ain't into ... (Chad Kultgen)

When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do ... (Mizuki Nomura)

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one. ... (Robert A. Johnson)

She eyes me like a pisces. ... (Kurt Cobain)

I sold my chastity for a book. If I had only resisted him, would I be here now? "I want you to read to me," he murmured as he turned ... (Julia Sykes)

Never forget where you've been & why you started your movement. Reflect, Focus, Persevere. Don't give up & keep moving forward on the roads of your life. ... (Timothy Pina)

To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same ... (Phillips Brooks)

You've got me confused with one of those women who needs a ring on her finger to feel complete. I don't put those kinds of expectations on men. And I'd ... (Kristen Painter)

[Stares at dead knight, killed by the Direwolves] Ersen: If he had sounded his horn ... Theon: Try and imagine it was you up there, Ersen. Its dark and cold. ... (George r r martin)

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what ... (Eugene H. Peterson)

Stormfur ... You'll have to go on without me, brother. Save the Clan. ... (Erin Hunter)

My point," Jason said, "is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place. ... (Rick Riordan)

He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up and rains on our private parade, I snort ... (Rusty Fischer)

I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl ... (Drake)

There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses that and ... (China Mieville)

The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and ... (Dallas Willard)

Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man. ... (Yukio Mishima)

I was jut vamping for time to make a few self-improvements: I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star, it's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too ... (Truman Capote)