Bunkish Quotes & Sayings

Nobody broke your heart. You broke your own heart 'cause you can't finish what you start. — Elliot Smith

He walks through the river of refugees and soldiers, giving purpose and direction to people who would otherwise be lost. — Susan Ee

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving. — Beverly Sills

But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of ... fact. — Brian Friel

The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of "Take to the Sky," but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain. — Katherine McIntyre

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants. — Randall Wright

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. — Laura Lippman

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it. — J.K. Rowling

God gives you everything you need. You just have to look around for it, and it will be there. — John Kramer

Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportian suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lovers's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favourite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. — Truman Capote

Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things. — Garth Ennis

Nice guys may finish last, but in a courtroom they are king. — Kenneth Eade

He even said you once threw al your husband's clothes onto the street and invited the neighbors to help themselves!" says Ellen with a bright laugh. "He's got such an imagination!"
My face flames. Damn. I thought he was asleep when I did that. — Sophie Kinsella