Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

Jim Gaffigan

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

Suzanne Collins

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Suzanne Collins

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

Suzanne Collins

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

Suzanne Collins

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

Suzanne Collins

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Suzanne Collins

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

Suzanne Collins

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Suzanne Collins

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Suzanne Collins

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

Suzanne Collins

You're hideous, you know that, right?

Suzanne Collins

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

Suzanne Collins

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Sonia Braga

You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.