Amidst Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

I knew the scratches would fade, the scabs would heal, and the throbbing ache of having been thrown into a brick wall would be gone. By tomorrow I'd be good as new: one of the few perks to being a hunter. — M.R. Merrick

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be. — John Waters

Again that weird trick: knowledge falls on to the ground that seems ready prepared though you never remember doing it. — Marion Coutts

Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there. — Tim O'Brien

A father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn't as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them. — Philip Roth

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality. — Alex Salmond

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing. — Joe Jamail

There are two kinds of knowing. The kind that resides in your brain, with straight edges and smooth planes, and fits tidily between memories like a book on a shelf. The kind that matches your hopes and tells you everything is as it should be. But then there's the knowing that comes for you at night, after layers of consciousness have been peeled off by the exhaustion of the day. It lives in that pit in your stomach, jagged and dark. The kind of knowing that won't let you rest until you finally surrender and let it, in all its ferocious and hideous glory, step into the light. The — Sarah Fine

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name. — Stephen Stills

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini! — Kelly Osbourne

You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place. — Mark Twain

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family! — Joyce Meyer