Coiners Scrap Quotes & Sayings

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money. — Christina Stead

challenge yourself to explore ways to make things work — Akosua Dardaine Edwards

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. — Kurt Vonnegut

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE ... TORTURE ... — Jeremiah Denton

Mom, this isn't what it looks like."
Mom put her hand on her hip. "It looks like a group of boys wrestling on the floor of your bedroom while you watch. Wearing a towel."
"Okay," I admitted, "it is what it looks like, but it's not - "
"Sexual?" She raised her eyebrows.
"Mom!"
Luna stuck her head under Mom's arm and sucked in a breath. "She's gone from a love triangle to a kinky sex pentagon. — A&E Kirk

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet. — Troy Polamalu

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house. — Sally Phillips

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. — Marguerite Young

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country. — Robert Frost

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. — Orhan Pamuk

It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie," says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National. — John Holliday

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister, when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall. — Napoleon Bonaparte