Quotes By Famous Authors: [G]
Shawn Carter was born December 4th,Weighing in at 10 pounds, 8 ounces.He was the last of my 4 children,The only one who didn't give me ...
There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in contact with all ...
You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode ...
Why was love such an addictive drug?Why did loving someone cause such suffering?
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an ...
That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, ...
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of ...
If you do what you fear, you won't fear what you do.
You know we have reversed roles, right? The guy is the one who usually doesn't want to spoon and the chick wants to be all ...
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as ...
The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, ...
The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and ...
The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
Over the years, they'd become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and ...
It is People that make Buildings not Buildings that make people
But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".
We know that Barca is playing at a high level and has a great possibility to win the competition, but I hope they do not ...
I am a 5'1 petite female. My pistol is my equalizer.
The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and ...
When you read the words on the page you give it life - yours...
There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a ...
Most of the equipment in the gym looked like it belonged in Christian's "Red Room of Pain." I didn't think NYSC was a front for ...
As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most ...
Alberta's two largest cities collected more in library fines than two higher levels of government levied against polluters in 2006-2007.
To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.
Exert energy to get it, give love to be loved and challenge yourself beyond expectations. You are not as fickle as you think
What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve
A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures ... They may accept ...
Leadership is the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are ...
This is not a Jewish story. It's a human story. If people don't know the truth about the Holocaust, then it could happen again to ...
It's one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.
Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.
Only four weeks ago, despite the pain in my chest, I did a fifty-mile run and qualified for my ultimate goal, my personal Holy Grail: ...
If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.
Given the proper incentive, no mountain, it seems, is too high to climb, no current too swift to swim, if one is a Cherokee.
Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.
Literature and opera are full ofcharacters who die for love:i stay alive for her. - Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager
I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual ...