Appiah Making Conversation Quotes & Sayings

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it. — Victoria Woodhull

When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now. — Mike Ditka

I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe ... — M.F.K. Fisher

As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called "good self-esteem." But self-esteem is
an art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much of
ourselves.
The name for thinking too much of ourselves is "egotism. — Richard N. Bolles

I like every part of growing older except what happens to your feet.
Written by Avis DeVoto to Julia Child in As Always, Julia — Joan Reardon

I hesitated on getting my backup gun and putting it in my purse, but didn't. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a travelling black hole in it. I'd never get the gun out in time if I really needed it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Caught in the center of a soundless field
While hot inexplicable hours go by
What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?
You seem to ask.
I make a sharp reply,
Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explain
Just in what jaws you were to suppurate:
You may have thought things would come right again
If you could only keep quite still and wait. — Philip Larkin