Choaky Quotes & Sayings

Oh," she said. "I wasn't going to ask, but then you never said anything about it, so I thought I'd ask."
"How about you?"
"Not me," said Odette. She had a poem about marriage. It began, Marriage is the death you want to die, and in front of audiences she never read it with much conviction. Usually she swung her foot back and forth through the whole thing. — Lorrie Moore

I feel like any time I'm doing what I love, my big pay-off is watching somebody else be the receiver. — Debbi Fields

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems. — Shelley Winters

I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football. — Archie Manning

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact. — Cameron Sinclair

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. — William Allen White

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is. — Maureen Murdock

Islam is about finding your own space. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When he was thirteen, he used an anti-Semitic epithet to describe a Jewish friend. Thinking of the moment more than seven decades later, Bush volunteered the story and cried, shaken by guilt over a remark made in the 1930s. He shook his head in wonder at his own insensitivity. "Never forgotten it. Never forgotten it." (The classmate remained a Bush friend and supporter for many years.) — Jon Meacham

Men fear what they themselves have imagined. — Lucan

War has its necessities ... and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life. — Steven Erikson

He does the good works already, Arn. He merely does them while cursing God." He leaned over. "While you sinned while praising God. — Miles Cameron

In the beginning was the word, the word
That from the solid bases of the light
Abstracted all the letters of the void ... — Dylan Thomas