Butterick Costume Quotes & Sayings

Are these from you?"
The voice so startled me that I whirled around. Unfortunately, I was still holding the rake in
my hand. Even more unfortunately, the wooden handle caught him right along the side of his
face. He staggered back, stunned, the bottle of wine I'd just left at his door slipping from his
grasp and shattering on the path with a crash. The scent of merlot drifted up around us, canceling
out the smells of spring.
"Oops," I said in a strangled voice.
"Jesus Christ, lady," my new neighbor cursed, rubbing his cheek. "What is your problem? — Kristan Higgins

I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.'
'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish? — John Green

I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe. — Jack Vance

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion. — Isabella Bird

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. — William C. Bryant

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty. — Lev Shestov

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?"
"I know - it's a dream come true! — Joel N. Ross

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! — Frank Gorshin

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. — Thomas Troward

I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the romantic idea of the passions being this wonderful source of life or vitality that define you or your writing. — Pankaj Mishra

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off. — AJ Michalka

She didn't know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn't know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful. — Michelle Tea

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world. — Glen Duncan