27886 Quotes & Sayings

Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally "bright", did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. — Ray Bradbury

I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sort of a miracle, but it happened. — Charles Schwab

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you? — Tamsin Greig

You may be a Founding Father and all that, but you still leave an occasional skidmark in your underdrawers. — Stephen King

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted - Balder, Persephone - but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. — E. M. Forster

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here. — Alexander Gordon Smith

I began shaking my head as if I could unsee it as Lucien and Tamlin stepped into the light. — Sarah J. Maas

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare. — Christian Nestell Bovee

the same reason you can't turn a hoe into a housewife, is the same reason you can't turn a thug into a husband. Hoes and thugs both love being out in the street. It's just in their nature. It is just way too hard to get them to stay their asses at home and chill. — Raymond Francis

Why the obsession with worldly possessions ? When it's your time to go, they have to stay behind, so pack light. — Alex Morritt