Chortled Def Quotes & Sayings

A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless — Sunday Adelaja

So hot that the locals claimed a pervert was a man who preferred women to beer — Terry Hayes

There are hundreds of reasons for Daniel and me
to be impossible. History has not been kind
to two boys who love each other like we do.
But putting that aside. And not even considering
the fact that a hundred and fifty years ago,
his family was in a small town in Russia
and my family was in a similarly small town
in Ireland- I can't imagine they could have
imagined us here, together. Forgetting our gender,
ignoring all the strange roads that led to us
being in the same time and place, there is still
the simple impossibility of love. That all of our
contradicting securities and insecurities,
interests and disinterests, beliefs and doubts,
could somehow translate into this common
uncommon affection should be as impossible
as walking to the moon. But instead, I love him. — David Levithan

Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing. — Edward Mazria

No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that he reserved only for students. "The Italians forever twitch at Dante's sleeves trying to make him say he is of their politics and their way of thinking. Their way indeed! To confine it to Florence or Italy is to banish it from the sympathies of mankind. We read Paradise Lost as a poem but Dante's Comedy as a chronicle of our inner lives. Do you boys know of Isaiah 38:10 — Matthew Pearl

Rip the page out of the small notebook and clutch it close, actively swallowing the hysteria tickling every broken moment in my mind. — Tahereh Mafi

What was in that file? Why had that lion/counselor/monster lady been so intent on killing me? I — Rick Riordan

The pure, absolute quality and nature of each note in itself are only appreciated by the strummer. For some notes have all the sea in them, and some cathedral bells; others a woodland joyance and a smell of greenery; in some fauns dance to the merry reed, and even the grave centaurs peep out from their caves. Some bring moonlight, and some the deep crimson of a rose's heart; some are blue, some red, and others will tell of an army with silken standards and march-music. And throughout all the sequence of suggestion, up above the little white men leap and peep, and strive against the imprisoning wires; and all the big rosewood box hums as it were full of hiving bees. — Kenneth Grahame

A promise must never be broken. — Alexander Hamilton

Von Rumpel laughs. He appreciates that they are trying to play the game. But don't they understand that the winner has already been determined? He — Anthony Doerr

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory
humorous, poignant, humane allegory
disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge. — Robertson Davies

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time. — Brandy Norwood

Every time he moved, he had a reason. — Rainbow Rowell

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. — Sargent Shriver