A9r50225 Quotes & Sayings

Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy? — Jasper Fforde

Every night, my girlfriend comes home from work, and she brings with her a houseplant. She's like, 'Anthony, I had to pick this up. We need a houseplant in our apartment.' And every night, I make her return it. I say, 'No way, baby. You can't take care of a houseplant. You couldn't even keep your baby alive.' — Anthony Jeselnik

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. — Lord Kelvin

Holy faith, holy courage. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up. — Jackie Chan

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding. — Jayne Mansfield

Most dancers find their confidence in dancing. Right is mere millimeters away from wrong. Failure is always louder than success. But there is an accumulation of all the things you don't do wrong, and it becomes your confidence. You can even get to the point where confidence lasts longer than the dance. Seconds at first. Then minutes. Then maybe it'll be there when you're walking into a party, or meeting people after a show. You know you have something desirable, and you know you can move. — David Levithan

I need to address my people, and I need to look the part. I will walk out onto the balcony with my head held high, fulfilling the fantasy I'd had as a little girl in my father's home. — Marie Lu

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus. — David Romtvedt

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes. — Vannoccio Biringuccio

Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice. — Nick Offerman

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin

It doesn't take a farm to invoke the iron taste of leaving in your mouth. Anyone who loves a small plot of ground - a city garden, a vacant lot with some guerilla beds, a balcony of pots - understands the almost physical hurt of parting from it, even for a minor stint. I hurt every day I wake up in our city bed, wondering how the light will be changing over the front field or across the pond, whether the moose will be in the willow by the cabin again, if the wren has fledged her young ones yet and we'll return to find the box untended. I can feel where the farm is at any point in my day, not out of some arcane sixth sense developed from years of summer nights out there with the coyotes under the stars, but because of the bond between that earth and this body. Some grounds we choose; some are our instinctive homes. — Jenna Butler

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead
and to find no one there. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. — George Savile