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

Amy Tan Quotes

«I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.»
«Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.»
Author: Amy Tan (Novelist, Writer) | About: Inspiration | Keywords: arises, desperation, fluke, Muses
«In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.»
«I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.»
Author: Amy Tan (Novelist, Writer)
«Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with»
Author: Amy Tan (Novelist, Writer) | About: Language | Keywords: grew, tool, trade
«Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument»
Author: Amy Tan (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: talks, The Conversation
«Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife»
Author: Amy Tan (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: land mines, mines
«People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. ... For the first time in her life, she's happy.»
«If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.»
Author: Amy Tan (Novelist, Writer)
«Saving Fish From Drowning»
Author: Amy Tan (Novelist, Writer)