Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Bernie Sanders

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

Donna Tartt

But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.

Donna Tartt

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Donna Tartt

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Solomon Ortiz

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Taylor Schilling

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

Stanley Kunitz

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

Stanley Kunitz

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

Stacy London

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Soren Kierkegaard

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

Stephenie Meyer

Everyone needs a little Edward in their life

Tana French

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

Jason Patric

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Josh Radnor

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Josh Radnor

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Josh Radnor

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.

John Keats

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Lisa Kleypas

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

Lionel Barrymore

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness