Bessieres 31 Quotes & Sayings

I am like a table
that eats its own legs off
because it's fallen
in love with the floor. — Cate Marvin

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts

If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your car, (about the BMW X3). — Jeremy Clarkson

My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time.

I am a crazy woman... That last part is true. — Brunonia Barry

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience. — A.B. Shepherd

Most people have no desire to swim until they are able to. Isn't that a laugh? Of course they don't want to swim! After all, they were born to live on dry land, not in water. Nor, of course, do they want to think. They weren't made to think, but to live! It's true, and anyone who makes thinking his priority may well go far as a thinker, but when all's said and done he has just mistaken water for dry land, and one of these days he'll drown. — Hermann Hesse

As long as he lived, it would always be a pleasure and a gift to fill his hands with the weight of her flesh. — Yaa Gyasi

He said that more businesses die from indigestion than starvation. I have observed the truth of that advice many times since then. — David Packard

Either you couldn't tell by looking at her that she was a bully, or Mia truly had transformed herself. Then later, for someone like Lou who simply didn't enjoy going to a movie on her own, seeing Mia wait to go in by herself had struck another chord with her. Mia had been far from the only person waiting in solitude, but there had been something about her as she stood there with her shoulder leaning against the wall, trying to conceal that she knew Lou was there as well. Something so vulnerable, Lou would never have associated it with Mia. And for a split second, the thought had popped into her brain: maybe Mia was a victim too. — Harper Bliss