Britishisms In American Quotes & Sayings

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn't have gotten me out of my books with a wedge ... Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life. — Alex Haley

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all. — Cassandra Clare

I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie. — Rob Corddry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. — Dave Barry

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it. — Malorie Blackman

Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses. — Kourtney Kardashian

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. — Gary Panter

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. — Stanislaw Lem

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. — Karl Marx

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge. — Dinah Sheridan