Abbreviations Funny Quotes & Sayings

Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice. — Alice Hoffman

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. — Robert Greene

But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! ( ... )
"It is my name," Athos said calmly.
"But you said your name was d'Artagnan."
"I?"
"Yes, you."
"That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken. — Alexandre Dumas

But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love. — Daria Snadowsky

The humiliations and defeats,
given with a primitive honesty,
end not in frustration, despair or futility,
but in hunger, an ecstatic devouring hunger - for more life.
- Anais Nin — Anais Nin

You get right down to it, writing is no means to self-help. It's scarcely a passing attempt at self-help. — Haruki Murakami

Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing." I appreciated the support. — Richelle Mead

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture. — Jane Fonda

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core. — Steven Soderbergh

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed. — Robert Gilpin

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician. — Reeve Carney