1790 Inn Quotes & Sayings

If you want something from someone, you have to give that person something they want. — Amish Tripathi

Oh shit, oh shit, stupid shower present!"
Now she did pull her hair as she made the dash to her office.
Roarke sat in her visitor's chair, comfortably involved with his PPC. He glanced up, let loose a regretful sigh. "You changed. And I didn't have any time to ogle you in uniform."
"I have to go shopping!"
Staring at her, Roarke pressed his fingertips to his temple. "I'm sorry, I believe I must have had a small stroke. What did you say?"
"This isn't funny." She bent down, gripped him by the lapels. "I forgot to get a thing for the thing, and I don't even know what the thing is supposed to be. Now I have to go out and hunt something down. Except - " Her eyes went from slightly mad to speculative. "We have all kinds of things around the house. Couldn't I just wrap something up and - "
"No."
"Crap! — J.D. Robb

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever forgot, or let his disguise drop for a minute, he would be recognized at once and driven away; he must be extremely careful to use the same voice every time, and present the same face and the same manner without a slip; he must be constantly on guard against betraying himself. I wondered if he would turn back to his true self when he was dead. — Shirley Jackson

We're creating a culture where people feel constantly surveilled, where people are afraid to be themselves. — Jon Ronson

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. — Henry Ward Beecher

The habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago

Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties. — Olga Kurylenko

I believe because it is absurd. — Tertullian

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do. — Donald Barthelme

From the beginning I was aware that there was something improper about the way I felt about Clementine Stark, something I shouldn't tell my mother, but I wouldn't have been able to articulate it. I didn't connect this feeling to sex. I didn't know sex existed — Jeffrey Eugenides

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair. — Martin Luther

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. — Herman Melville

Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more. — Swami Vivekananda