Boring Insert Quotes & Sayings

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes. — William Gilmore Simms

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien

Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum. — Lisa Kleypas

You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall ... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for? — Steve Maraboli

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. — Jose Marti

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment. — Jason Reitman

How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations. — Wallace Stevens

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind. — Jonathan Kozol

Impatience is a form of fear: fear of running out of time. — Russell Eric Dobda

I practically tasted you before we even exchanged names. — Gisell DeJesus

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it. — Kelseyleigh Reber

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross. — Greg Giraldo

Wisdom begins with reverence for God.
No God, no wisdom (witness your local university). — Dennis Prager

I'm going out with Colin Osgood today, and he's meeting me here. If you start making kissy noises, I will strip you of all your coffee privileges.
Rachel pretended to think seriously about it, then asked, "Can I make a joke?"
"No."
"A limerick?"
"No." "
Can I hum the "Wedding March" as you leave?"
"No. — Sarah Addison Allen

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn't have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside! — Gloria Reuben