Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Anita Baker

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

Angie Stone

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Ani Difranco

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

Andy Griffith

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Amy Jo Martin

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Ally Carter

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale

Ally Carter

Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

E. B. White

The best writing is rewriting.

E. B. White

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

E. B. White

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

E. B. White

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

E. B. White

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

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.