Adability Quotes & Sayings

French, spoken by a number of people at a distance, strongly resembles the quacking conversation of ducks and geese, with its nasal elements. English, on the other hand, has a slower pace, and much less rise and fall in its intonations. Spoken at a distance where individual voices are impossible to distinguish, it has the gruff, friendly monotony of a sheepdog's barking. — Diana Gabaldon

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin

What can you take from me which is not already yours? — Bruce Lee

If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom. — Eleanor Prescott

Well I am young." Just as he felt a flicker of ease, she murmured in a sexy voice, "But, baby, I've been busy. — Kresley Cole

Don't measure busywork. Don't measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn't matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done. — Larry Winget

The suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace. — Vida Dutton Scudder

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility. — Tavis Smiley

Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow — Homer

That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath. — David Bergen

The myth about the CIA dated back to the Bay of Pigs: that all its successes were secret, that only its failures were trumpeted. The truth was that the CIA could not succeed without recruiting and sustaining skilled and daring officers and foreign agents. The agency failed daily at that mission, and to pretend otherwise was a delusion. — Tim Weiner

I don't really think kids care much these days - they just tell you to f*** off. — Robbie Fowler

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork. — G. Willow Wilson