Aphorisms Examples Quotes

#1. A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

R.J. Palacio

#2. I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#3. The honor of acting as New Orleans's mascot comes with a profound responsibility to forsake stress, stability, sobriety, monogamy, respectability, and all manner of legitimate employment and lawful behavior.

Frenchy Brouillette

#4. Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.

Wes Fesler

#5. I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

David Hallberg

#6. To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

Juvenal

#7. Not thou,
White rose, but thy
Ensanguined sister is
The dear companion of my heart's
Shed blood.

Adelaide Crapsey

#8. On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Hu Shih

#9. No matter what's going on in your life, remember that salvation isn't only something Jesus did for you; it's Jesus living in you.

Stormie O'martian

#10. I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.

Bonnie St. John

#11. I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

Corin Tucker

#12. I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

John Lee Hooker

#13. When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

Peter Hook

#14. Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

Vint Cerf