516 Area Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did. — Barbara Billingsley

Rowena Clark and I had met on the first day of our mixed media class. I'd sat down at her table and said, "Mind if I join you? Figure the best way to learn about art is to sit with a masterpiece." Maybe I was in love, but I was still Adrian Ivashkov.
Rowena had fixed me with a flat look. "Let's get one thing straight. I can see through crap a mile away, and I like girls, not guys, so if you can't handle me telling you what's what, then you'd better take your one-liners and hair gel somewhere else. I don't go to this school to put up with pretty boys like you. I'm here to face dubious employment options with a painting degree and then go get a Guinness after class."
I'd scooted my chair closer to the table. "You and I are going to get along just fine. — Richelle Mead

Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again. — D.T. Suzuki

My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one. — Lisa Ling

Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish. — Jenny Eclair

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. — Peter McWilliams

falling short to deliver responses is one of the most popular blunders that innovators create. — Dan Anderson

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity. — Doc Watson

And yes, you might be thinking that girls can totally wear cargo pants if they want to, but I disagree. Skinny girls might be able to wear those things, but girls like me look like they're wearing pants with a bunch of purses stapled to them, and that's really the last thing you need when you're looking for something slimming in the plus-size section. In fact, most of the pockets you see on women's pants are just illusions made to taunt you. Or sometimes they really are pockets but they are intentionally sewn closed, as if to say, "I'm letting you have these pockets but I'm sewing them shut for your own good." And most of us leave them sewn shut because we'd rather look thin than have pockets. — Jenny Lawson

You have to feel the pain if you're going to feel the joy. — Mia Sheridan

If you want it to be, your heart can be your biggest and most powerful muscle in your body. — Robert Cheeke

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic. — Dalai Lama

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not. — Laura Amy Schlitz