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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
MAELLE GAVET As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popula...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES There were a lot of people in the service,” says Dickey, “who cried when they were discharged be...
GEORGE SHEEHAN I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he ha...
STEFAN ZWEIG If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS I thought the boys were magnificent, ... They come to compete, they come to play from the first whis...
COLIN CLARKE It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. In the beginning, people thought Latinos would come here (to make money) and go home. They want to b...
BARBARA SULLIVAN He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I thought we were flat offensively. We were still making a lot of mistakes. We really need to come o...
DOUG WINSLOW I thought we were a little flat in the first half and I took it upon myself to come out with a lot o...
BRIAN SNIDER I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL They said there would be a lot of bloodshed and I would be one of the first to go.
EDWARD CARABALLO Who is the first farmer? The good book says: God planted a garden. So God is the first, then Adam, a...
SOTONYE ANGA Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.
ORRIN WOODWARD She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I thought we were dominating from the first shift. Even when the score was tied after the first peri...
JAROMIR JAGR When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... We're older and a lot of people thought we were crazy. A lot of people still think we're crazy. They...
SARAH ALLEN Whenever I would get discouraged, I'd see the faces of the people who were going to have no voice in...
GWEN MOORE I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where mov...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN A lot of people wouldn't venture in. Obviously you've got a building that at first glance appeared t...
GEORGE BAMBALIS When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and '...
R. L. STINE I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and m...
GERALDINE BROOKS There seem to be two main types of people in the world, crosswords and sudokus.
REBECCA MCKINSEY They were plays we called in the huddle. They were bringing a lot of people, but we had worked on th...
ADAM PRICE I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the fi...
BURT STELLERS Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.”
“Oh?” I turn at the wais...
J.A. REDMERSKI A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not goin...
SIA When they were with the girls that were the leaders, they would ignore me. They would laugh and they...
DANA CONVISSAR We all had the same goals in mind and we fund a lot of the same charities. We thought this was an id...
DOUG VANCE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The censors were so far gone as to find the following sentence obscene: 'The factory gate waited for...
AKIRA KUROSAWA When I first started here, we'd get people in high school who'd take the SAT and we'd hope that mayb...
ANDREW ROSEN A lot of people thought they were secure. Then, lo and behold, the pension plans go under, the marke...
BRONWYN BELLING A lot of people who knew them (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Madison) would have considered them...
DAVID HOLMES That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS I knew a lot of people would come if there was some controversy, like when we put on 'The Vagina Mon...
DOUG SCHULTZ We get spectators a lot. Most of the time when people come out they sit in the shelters out there. A...
DAN FITZGERALD The Vikings thought they were big shots because they had boats. You know how obnoxious people get wh...
COLIN QUINN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

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GEORGE WILL Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
GEORGE WILL Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
WILL ROGERS An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
WILL ROGERS There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
WILL ROGERS A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
WILL ROGERS The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
WILL ROGERS Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many America...
GEORGE WILL The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
WILL ROGERS Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
WILL ROGERS We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
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