Quotes By Famous Authors: [T]
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly's wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful.
Pompous worm-faced snob-head camel turd.
Leave the light and travel the shadow-lands, said Blaise, repeating the inscription on the silver box.
Ballet, too, was made more tolerable when observed from a barstool.
You can choose to say, "Good Morning God" or "Good God, morning!
I can feel his soul through his lips. It's telling me a story of agony over how long it's waited for this moment and how ...
After you died, I kept your wardrobe locked, with all your clothes inside, all your lovely ties. The scent of you. I sat inside this ...
I don't know why or how he expected total compliance from us women. I mean, were their women that intimidated that they did everything they ...
The destination isn't in finding yourself. The destination is in the search.
Be loyal to your own piece of mind.
He imagined that the great dark abyss of space was alive and that he might attract its attention if he stared too long into it ...
I listen, perhaps the way the wounded will listen to the continuing war
Hope is the breakfast of champions.
Better is always different.
I'm a happy guy. I'm a lucky guy.
A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe.[Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]
The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved ...
? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they ...
The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?
Here to second lives. May we all be forgiven for the inapt missteps of our past, and presented with new opportunities to accomplish the things ...
Doing scrum" is as meaningless (and impossible) as creating an instance of an abstract class. Scrum is a framework for surfacing organizational dysfunction. It is ...
Unfortunately, telling me not to worry is like telling someone not to breathe. It's impossible, and is my default setting.
Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and ...
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty ...
Let's go together and go to different places and see different things. It'll be fun!- Gon Freaks
I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like myself. I have ...
It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'
You can't live life without an eraser.
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action.
It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.
Acceptance of the bit happens in the haunches, not in the mouth.
Spend 80 percent of your time on books and 20 percent on articles and newspapers. And by books, I don't mean just any book. I ...
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.
Reader one moment stop and think,That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.
A Christian's duty is to win souls for Christ. It would seem to me that tearing down a church you disagree with is like shooting ...
Well what would you have us do, Jason? Swan into a hardware store without any cash and say "give us your best rack or we'll ...
Let go and let God be God in your life.
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career ... I am very grateful for the education he gave me ...
[The government involvement in the economy] is so overwhelming and beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this country away from a ...
If man can't piss in his own front yard, then he's living too close to town!
A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.
Growing and opening the inner life in order for us to more fully take in the world is an essential part of coming to our ...
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.
Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !
I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.