Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

Research Database of Quotes

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A B C D E F G H I
J
K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

James Thurber Quotes

«Members of Congress are very worried about the reaction in their district and their states about having an Arab country run several of our nation's ports.»
«As the Justice Department gets closer and closer to him through his aides, and if he is in more trouble, certainly the Democrats will use that.»
«The news of continuing deaths cannot be overcome by speeches.»
«Karl Rove is a great guy in terms of developing issues for a campaign, but he's not done well on advocating policy in a governance setting. The job is diminished, but he probably doesn't mind that. He's a racehorse in a campaign.»
«You name the issue. There would be a lot of oversight hearings. He will be a true lame duck.»
«Don't let that chip on your shoulder be your only reason for walking erect»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: chip, erect
«Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness»
«Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: gleamed
«If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.»
«The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.»

Pages: « Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next »