38111 Quotes & Sayings

Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible — George Bernard Shaw

Save us a day and more! Bruerior repeated stubbornly. Wulfgar wasn't convinced. — R.A. Salvatore

Different languages cut the world into different slices. — Jean Berko Gleason

You read the most obscure, hyperspecific academic articles on the planet to the point where you develop actual burning ire over scholars you've never met. ("Can you believe that the interpretation of Patel et al. contradicts that of Chen et al.? Those sons of bitches!") — Adam Ruben

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else. — Chris Rock

As he pushed her by the shoulder toward the gate, the rising howl commenced. Nightmares had beome a science. Someone, a mere human, had taken the time to dream up this satanic howling. And what success! It was the sound of panic itself, mounting and straining toward the extinction they all knew, individually, to be theirs. It was a sound you were obliged to take personally. — Ian McEwan

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. — Tom Stoppard

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? — Russell Hoban

Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking about things like this."

She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard.

"Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? — Ray Bradbury