8083 Quotes & Sayings

I think I'm prone to panic. — Robert Plant

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people
but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I couldn't tear my eyes from the window, wanting to drink in as much of St. Louis as I could, knowing somewhere out there, one of those infinitesimally small lights was him. I wondered if he'd look up and see the planes crossing the sky like shooting stars, knowing one of those lights was me. — Leah Raeder

What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet. — Ilona Andrews

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortune! Wouldn't anyone with the slightest sense of adventure, or the most weakly flickering respect for intellect, gladly exchange the old cosmic comfort for a look at something so weird and wonderful - yet so real - as *Opabinia*? — Stephen Jay Gould

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up. — David Chase

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. — Robert Hughes

Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm. — Zora Neale Hurston

I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention. — Blair Brown

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased — Percival Everett

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. — Edmund Spenser

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal. — Gary Paulsen