Blubbery Belly Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious. — Lemony Snicket

I was unstoppable, slamming down on the keys as if I were playing before a packed concert hall. Write! Write! Write! — Tiffanie DiDonato

The remarkable thing about the world of insects, however, is precisely that there is no veil cast over these horrors. These are mysteries performed in broad daylight before our very eyes; we can see every detail, and yet they are still mysteries. If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs," then clearly I had better be scrying the signs. The earth devotes an overwhelming proportion of its energy to these buzzings and leaps in the grass. Theirs is the biggest wedge of the pie: Why? I ought to keep a giant water bug in an aquarium on my dresser, so I can think about it. — Annie Dillard

Well, that should do it," the man replied. "Oh, and I did put a small camera in your office, just to square things up. It's hidden, so you won't have to worry about somebody spotting it. — Diana Palmer

The habit of mobility had become ingrained. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[ ... ]. — Simone De Beauvoir

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune ... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way. — Soren Kierkegaard

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. — Indra Nooyi

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches. — Horace

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net. — Russell Howard

The state legislatures, as Madison and many another viewed them, had become a babel of narrow-minded parochial concerns, their members men of selfish interests and untutored understanding, oblivious of minority rights, passing unjust laws (such as legal tender acts whereby debts people owed each other could be paid in worthless currency), and all unchecked by any overriding vision of the public good or what it might consist of. — Stanley Elkins