Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Malorie Blackman

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Josie Bissett

My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Rinko Kikuchi

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Alvin Lee

I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside.

Joseph Cook

She was the first person who got me involved and kind of inspired me,

William Fonville

When I get inspired to write, the song just seems to come to me all at once. All I have to do is keep living to stay inspired.

Common

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Jane Leavy

The only mystery is why we find it surprising that someone opted out, ... It makes him different.

Walt Whitman

I and this mystery, here we stand.

Iris Johansen

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

John McKenzie

We just didn't come out to play the third quarter. It's a mystery to me and I don't know why we didn't.

John Edens

We don't know where he got the book. We don't know who commissioned the watercolors. That's the real mystery here.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Bryan Magee

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.