Amalgamating Def Quotes & Sayings

At the beginning of a remodel, money is everything, but as you go along, it becomes secondary to the vision. You can't have the house looking like a glorious jewel and leave the cracked linoleum or the icky light fixture, so you spend and spend and spend. Then one day it suddenly occurs to you that all that play money you've been throwing around is real - and it's in someone else's bank account. — Margo Kaufman

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius

I think people of lesser talent will become stars. — Howard Stern

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off. — Tori Amos

The Army is the Indian's best friend. — George Armstrong Custer

To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

If you want to know how to control a man, you don't need to look any further than your own mouth. — J.A. Huss

As grumblers go, Stubble was in a league of his own. — Ian Livingstone

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning. — Blaise Cendrars

It is important not to show too many inches at once. — Blake Butler

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better. — Leo Tolstoy

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. — Kenneth L. Pike

I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories. — Ted Naifeh