9fineirishmen Quotes & Sayings

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her. — Khaled Hosseini

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. — Jami Attenberg

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours. — Shannon L. Alder

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress. — Jim Clyburn

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. — Ella Fitzgerald

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners. — Mahatma Gandhi

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth — Barbara La Marr

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. — Kenneth Oppel

You cannot go to someone who is 65 or 70 years of age and tell 'em, 'This program that you retired relying on is now being pulled out from underneath you.' — Marco Rubio

I missed the moonlight, the stars. There were times I forgot that there was an entire universe above the clouds. It was as if a shroud had been pulled around the Earth. Over time, we would forget everything that we had once struggled so hard to observe and learn and prove. We would forget about Jupiter and its churning storms. We would forget about the Big Dipper, about Halley's comet. We would stumble across telescopes in old department stores and never give them a second look, never wonder about the things they once made large. — Jason Gurley

For a girl there is a shorter version of youth. — Aporva Kala

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. — George Henry Lewes

altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, — Lewis Carroll