Bulk Insert Quotes & Sayings

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. — Alfred Whitney Griswold

Thomas: Wow, that treehouse is like twice the size of our actual house.
Pam (whispering): Don't say 'like.'
Me: Oh, ha ha, let him say what he wants, let's not be
Thomas: That treehouse is twice the size of our actual house. — George Saunders

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. — Rick Riordan

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is. — Ryan Gosling

I'm by myself," she said finally. "No family to speak of."
"I see." Leaning forward again, he rested his arms against the table. "That must be rather difficult."
"Sometimes."
"And lonely, I imagine. Perhaps that is why you came here tonight?"
Her jaw popped under the strain of maintaining decorum. "First: I said I was alone, not lonely. There's a big difference. And second: is that really why you think I'm here?"
"I do not know what to think. I know you must have reasons for being here other than what you have already hinted at. Reasons important enough to make an otherwise intelligent woman not only bring food to a stranger so late at night, but also accept his invitation to sit inside an empty motel room without a second thought."
"Why don't you just call me a hooker while you're at it? — Angela B. Wade

Brandon is your boyfriend, right. You keep saying 'Brandon is my boyfriend,'" he moved his fingers in quote marks, "and it makes as much sense as 'I am balancing the planet Pluto on my big toe' or 'Kumquats make the best nuclear physicists. — Jennifer Echols

I like the fact that Americans all have kettles on the hobs of their ovens; nobody has an electric kettle. It seems connected to the frontier way of life; whether you're in a New York apartment building or you're keeping the coyotes away on the prairie - you need boiling water? Then you need a flame. — Deborah Meyler

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets. — Isaac Mizrahi

As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency. — Susan Shreve

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise ... The destiny of man, of all men and of each man, is that he is condemned to invent what he will be - condemned if he is fearful but blessed if he welcomes the great adventure. We are responsible in the last analysis, not simply for what we are, but for what we will become; and that is a source of either high excitement or distress. — Paul Kurtz

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished. — Jose Saramago

Rocket launcher?" he wondered aloud. "Nope, nope," said a voice from the corner. "Potatoes. — Rick Riordan

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam. — Monica Crowley