Quotes By Famous Authors: [M]
It's a lie to feel any war is far away.
I take my pet lion to church ever Sunday. He has to eat.
Emotions are destructive, Ms. Dillinger. One of two things will happen to you. You will either be hurt and wish you were dead, or you ...
Don't take life too serriously; you'll never get out of it alive!
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh ...
The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time.
Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This ...
Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who ...
Looks are only a reflection of how you want other people to see you.
Life is beautiful. Look around. Don't take anything for granted.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise ...
My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children ...
I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.
I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence ...
It's developmental
People to ourselves rather than Jesus, and then wonder why power has left the pulpit and why the deep theological treasures of some of the ...
I read 'Jaws' and 'The Godfather' back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be.
Just know this, that God is faithful, even when you don't have faith yourself.
I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I ...
The rose is red, the violet's blue, Sugar's sweet and so are you. If you love me as I love you, No knife can cut ...
Born evil? I know of no such person, even in the annals of crime or in the biographies of despots. The answer here is no.
A curious mind is never bored.
An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to ...
No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.
America is the greatest sin against God.
The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,From the likes of the usual pack.He'll shoulder his gear, be hittin' the trail;Long gone, long 'fore he'll ...
Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and ...
You tomorrow, Bruce." The man gave a quick nod and walked away. Maddie watched him make his way through the revolving door. "I'm so glad ...
It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.
You use your Bible like you were ordering from a restaurant menu. I call that Bible a la carte. You choose what parts of the ...
To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the ...
Why do you care so badly that I live, if while alive, I am already dead?
Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have ...
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - ...
The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap.
A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has ...
I sat evaluating myself.I decided to lie down.
I hadn't been there. I couldn't judge. But it seemed to me that the only thing more disgusting than the speed at which we'd handed ...
Possible initial state or from any moment in its history, can theoretically be predicted, then every possible
Believe in the dream... Beware the danger.
My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.
Leaders should be leading, not hunting around in the weeds for land mines.
At its root, perfectionism isn't really about a deep love of being meticulous. It's about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others. ...
It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that ...
I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics ...
Justice is rendering each killer that which is his due.
Instead of testing a new idea or tool, "paralysis by analysis" takes hold. We overanalyze new options, mull over all of the things we don't ...