Adayinmyshoes Quotes & Sayings

My eyes flipped open at exactly six A.M. This was no avian fluttering of the lashes, no gentle blink toward consciousness. The awakening was mechanical. A spooky ventriloquist-dummy click of the lids: The world is black and then, showtime! 6-0-0 the clock said -in my face, first thing I saw. 6-0-0. It felt different. I rarely woke at such a rounded time. I was a man of jagged risings: 8:43, 11:51, 9:26. My life was alarmless. — Gillian Flynn

I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo. — Arthur Smith

There are no inanimate objects ... — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Too bad I prefer caramel to toffee! — J.M. Witt

Mary Baker Eddy: "Home is the dearest spot on earth, and should be the centre, not the boundary, of the affections. — Elisabeth Egan

You're freaking gorgeous! — Laura Kaye

We feel led to caution ... against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit ... We, therefore, repeat our counsel ... to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth ... Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt. — Wilford Woodruff

The harshest criticism, I noticed, often seemed to come from other women. I didn't want to be that kind of woman, I decided; it wasn't right to hurt others in a way I'd been hurt. From then on, I vowed, I would never say anything negative about a woman's appearance. It had nothing to do with them as a person, and it wasn't something they could easily change. If I didn't want looks to matter, I would have to stop talking and acting like they did. — Mara Wilson

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find. — Anne Enright

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people. — L. Ron Hubbard