Apostrophe Scare Quotes & Sayings

You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster. — Cassandra Clare

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. — I. A. Richards

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying. — Tiffany Hawk

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa

There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. — Alexander McCall Smith

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this. — Milton Resnick

Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico. — Harry Caray

Keep dreaming.
You can go as far as you dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life, they showed me, could go on no matter how unpredictable, no matter how unfair. — Stephanie Madoff Mack

Beware! the tower said. You are entering the realm of the Elephant King, a sovereign so rich in pachyderms that he can waste the gnashers of a thousand of the beasts just to decorate me. — Salman Rushdie

The day wasn't exactly my own
since I checked
and found it on a public calendar.
Tripping over many pairs of legs
as I walked down the park
I also learned my lust
was not so rare a masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen

Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction. — Joan Jett