Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
- Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
- Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
- Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), New York Times, October 19, 1931
- The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
- A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, 1903
- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: Dianetics 55
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|