Assailed Vigorously Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Are you living just a little and calling that life? — Annie Dillard

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future. — Oprah Winfrey

Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month
emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense. — Manly Hall

So, let me get this straight," she said. "You're not afraid to scale Mount McKinley or swim in shark-infested waters, but you're scared of getting another scolding from your mother? — Tracy Brogan

There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn't have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn't talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn't even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn't have anything. So we don't even know who we're talking about. It's better that we don't talk about him any more. — Daniil Kharms

As for clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility. Let him who has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be accomplished without adding to his wardrobe. — Henry David Thoreau

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. — Samuel Johnson

Don't follow your mentors; follow your mentors' mentors. — David Leach

The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo. — Jack W. Szostak

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it. — Lotte Lehmann

Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to kindergarten together. For real. — Daniel J. Goor

You may suffer many defeats in this life, but you will not be defeated.
You will rise after each trial
stronger and wiser. — Leon Brown