Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Nelson Page

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Terry Goodkind

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

Marge Piercy

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Marilyn Ferguson

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

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.

S. E. Hinton

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

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.

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.

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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Douglas Hofstadter

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Washington Irving

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Lewis Grizzard

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

Arthur Golden

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

David Foster Wallace

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

David Foster Wallace

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

Frank Herbert

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Florence King

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.