Anarchic Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight."
"That's great." I picked up my bathrobe. "I was afraid I was going to have to get some sleep."
She was bending over looking for her slippers. "Don't be such an old fluff. You can sleep all day." She found her slippers and stood up in them. "Is she really as afraid of her mother as she says?"
"If she's got any sense. Mimi's poison."
Nora screwed up her dark eyes at me and asked slowly: "What are you holding out on me?"
"Oh, dear," I said, " I was hoping I wouldn't have to tell you. Dorothy is really my daughter. I didn't know what I was doing, Nora. It was spring in Venice and I was so young and there was a moon over the ... "
"Be funny. Don't you want something to eat? — Dashiell Hammett

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field. — Lawrence Timmons

My favorite place to shop is: any Duane Reade. — Michael Bastian

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched. — Patti Davis

We parked in the lot by the lake and as we emerged from the car, the mountains seemed to have closed in around us and the quiet was palpable, inescapable, underlined by the distant, humming rush of Poulnapass Waterfall. — Orna Ross

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday) — Carrie Mae Weems

So . . . you want me to fall in love with you, while you play kissing games with another girl? — Sherry Thomas

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul. — Anita Diamant

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young? — Martin Luther

I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor. — Sarah Palin

She had been here before. She had never been here before. There was always something just out of sight, just around a corner, something she could never chase down - something that was chasing her down. — Kate Atkinson

Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness? — Nicole Krauss

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself. — Christine Lahti

If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working — Josh Stern