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LORRIN L. LEE Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.
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ANUJ SOMANY A lot of people didn't [have sex] in high school in the 1950s, ... My favorite actors include Robert...
ROGER EBERT Know him a certified lazy man, who when ask on Facebook, what is his favorite exercise, clicks like ...
DR HITESH C SHETH Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL My favorite quote from Leopards Blood is found on page 232: Joshua talking to Sonia “…I will lov...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY I hear he?s a favorite, and he?s a favorite of mine.
LAURA BUSH Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERN WILLIAMS I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But ask...
CASEY JAMES There's an intangibility factor with Stan. It's like having a second father or grandfather, or a fav...
JOE DIMURO You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats i...
ANNE STEVENSON The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
WENDY MASS most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have t...
PYTHAGORAS If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorit...
EVEL KNIEVEL Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do.
AGYNESS DEYN Ah, it's too hard to pick a favorite president. It really is. It's like picking your favorit...
MITT ROMNEY When the prospects of fame fortune bring thought to a life of no worry, it brings other worries in t...
GARY F EVANS... You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, ...
STEVIE WONDER One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard ...
GABOUREY SIDIBE A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
ANUJ SOMANY 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 its like picking your least favorite color of the rainbow
ELLEN DEGENERES We're having such a good time here. We have taken this film to a number of festivals and this is our...
CAMERON WATSON I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN My favorite one just happens to look like a pin cushion.
CHRISTINA DAY It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say t...
RICHARD LINKLATER I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say t...
MARSHA BLACKBURN I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.
JEFF BOWEN My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with...
JOSS WHEDON The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
THOMAS BULFINCH The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS 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 It's been awesome. I like it here a lot. It's definitely one of my favorite schools.
JOSH MARKS What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is ...
E. O. WILSON From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I int...
GROUCHO MARX RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
AMBROSE BIERCE That can be a 'challenge word,' maybe asking you your birthday, your favorite cake, your favorite de...
MICHAEL JACKSON They thought up a ton of favorite places.
ERICA SCHULTZ It's kind of like slipping into your favorite pair of blue jeans.
EDDIE CANADAY A favorite has no friend!
THOMAS GRAY I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
PAUL PIERCE Remember: He-Man ?? His favorite quote "I have the Power!!!" He claimed that this power made him the...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.
YUAN YUAN TAN George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
DOLLY PARTON My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!
CORIN NEMEC People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.
NICOLE YATSONSKY Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.
RICO LOVE One day there was a fly and a feather fly said to the feather buzzing about i am better than you are...
GARY F EVANS... Everyone's favorite subject is the self. People will only share their favorite subject with you if t...
TERENCE T. GORSKI My favorite first food was pizza. I like broccoli.
EMMANUEL GAI SOLOMON TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT He's a local and a crowd favorite.
LARRY GERWIG A loosers favorite meal is excuse.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. B...
COREY TAYLOR People will go out and see the movies, and there's something appealing about the competition having ...
ANDY DONCHIN We have talked to the players about playing the role of a favorite. We want them to play strong and ...
SCOTT RADEKER The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.
SAIOM SHRIVER Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
TAYLOR SWIFT 'Terminator' is one of my favorite movies.
DEAN AMBROSE I have many favorite vacation destinations, but my favorite destination is Maui.
BOBBY LEE My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, m...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA It was a whale of a game. That's my favorite memory of the place.
JIM ROSBOROUGH Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA What is my favorite part of a woman? Her eagerness.
OREN ADAMS We got our favorite cookie and our favorite chocolate and our favorite nut mix. And then we got suck...
LESLEIGH DRYE 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 My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
NATALIE MARTINEZ I like Kubrick a lot, Coppola, Lynch - I guess my favorite modern director is David Lynch.
ALEX WINTER [FAVORITE BOOK/AUTHOR:] Pride and Prejudice ... I like that period of literature and I like the snap...
JANE AUSTIN In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with ...
H. L. MENCKEN Michigan State is the favorite. After that, there's a lump of teams.
BRUCE WEBER The English country folk dance was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I.
GAYLA CURTIS 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 came out, never having played hockey in my life, and just worked. Now it's my favorite thing.
JAMI KLAGOS My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs bene...
KATE WINSLET He seemed to be a favorite in the family.
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ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
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ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
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ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes.
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ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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