783 Area Quotes & Sayings

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon — James Alexander Thom

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam. — Ernie Els

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book. — Mark Twain

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will. — Barack Obama

They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?' — Natalie Portman

Every Forsaken in a mile radius can probably hear you. You're just asking for trouble if you two don't stop whipping out the measuring stick."
"It's his fault," Avery snaps, pointing at Julian.
"Shut up, ya wanker."
They start in on each other again. They yell as if they both have megaphones to their mouths, standing inches apart. Each vulgar insult is more illogical than the last. — Laura Kreitzer

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state. — Mary Wortley Montagu

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on, — Audra McDonald

And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives - the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us - that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting. — Terry Tempest Williams