13901 Quotes & Sayings

Splat. Without thought, she'd thrown mud all over his face. So much for femme fatale.
He sputtered in disbelief, then roared, What the ever-livin' feck - — Kresley Cole

It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down all around your canal-side dinner table. — John Green

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that. — Virginia Woolf

Most don't deserve your tears ... and the ones that do will never make you cry. — T. Rafael Cimino

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are. — Curtis Jackson

...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales. — Alice Hoffman

(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much. — Dale Carnegie

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure. — Carl Linnaeus

Helen, who was wild to be doing, and who had no patience for the limitation of words, or of thoughts, or even of the body, though she trusted the body most. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand. — Thelonious Monk