Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. E. Hinton

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

Thomas Nelson Page

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

Lewis Grizzard

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

Clifton Fadiman

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.

Dorothea Brande

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Michael Arlen

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

Barbara de Angelis

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Budd Schulberg

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Frederik Pohl

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

Will Cuppy

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

William Pollard

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

Mark Russell

Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy.

Larry McMurtry

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

Larry McMurtry

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

Lloyd Alexander

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

Mitch Albom

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

Cynthia Heimel

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

John Gregory

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Performance Art is brief, about 15 minutes long. This is a problem in that you cannot get people to come out to watch a 15-minute performance.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

Mary Gordon

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

Michael Gerber

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

John Jakes

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

John Armstrong

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in.

Jean Stafford

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

Helen Rowland

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

Arthur Golden

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

Jonathan Kozol

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.