59833 Quotes & Sayings

David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else! — Francine Pascal

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers. — John Godfrey Saxe

The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself. — Lady Gaga

There can never be enough written about heroic acts and heroic people, we all need the inspiration they give us. — Carey V. Azzara

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage. — David Sedaris

drinks for the crowd. — Ronda Rousey

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. — Alan Moore

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know ... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least. — Keith Rabois

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical. — David Berlinski

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? — Elizabeth Peters

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. — Oscar Wilde

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer. — Richard Gere

When I get older, I will be stronger — K'naan

Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance! — Bob Marley

Overhead, between the tips of the highest firs, he saw the first stars peeping, and the sky was a clean, pale amethyst that seemed exactly the colour all these memories clothed themselves with in his mind.
- Secret Worship — Algernon Blackwood