Commonsensical Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Expected a bit more skin, Almeida." She punctuated that with a pointed glance at the shorts area. The man had promised Speedos.
"Think Chicago's seen enough of me, don't you?"
Chicago might have, but Kinsey most definitely had not. — Kate Meader

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option. — Lucas Papademos

The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on. — Abby Wambach

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage. — Irin Carmon

By resting content with small blessings, we disqualify ourselves for receiving the Spirit in ... unlimited fullness. We — Ellen G. White

> Roo-ah-rooo-ahhh.
>What's that?
>It's the Cute Guy Alarm.
> It sounds like a bird. — Rainbow Rowell

I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them. — David Slade

I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win. — Larry Fitzgerald

It is bad advice that cannot be changed. — Publilius Syrus

You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office. — Dave Sim

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. — Robert Fripp

He wore normal clothes, but his dark skin contrasted with the rest of the bystanders. — Charlie N. Holmberg

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health. — Aristotle.