Abjuring Def Quotes & Sayings

You're staring at me."
"I am not. I'm just ... thinking. Without blinking. — Summer Lane

She's the stuff that lava is made of, not rain. — Anna Camilleri

Another fine mess you've gotten me into. — Stan Laurel

It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference. — Pankaj Mishra

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive. — Antonia Fraser

On the Subject of Non-American Blacks Suffering from Illnesses Whose Names They Refuse to Know. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world — Viktoria Modesta

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in. — Ellen DeGeneres

I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That's really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart. — Michael Franti

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. — Thomas Merton

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. — Edward Gibbon

I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script. — Keanu Reeves