Comoedia Palliata Quotes & Sayings

No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed. — Virginia Woolf

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good. — Jamie Campbell Bower

Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow. — Phillip Thomas

To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while. — Bruce Mau

This very personal relationship, 'value,' has two factors for a human being: first, what he can do with a thing, its use to him . . . and second, what he must do to get it, its cost to him. There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears. — Robert A. Heinlein

Small back yard until the sun went down and the early mosquitoes came out to play. I was — Karina Halle

Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said.
She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body.
Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath. — Jodi Picoult

Atlanta is an incredibly cool city. — Andrew Lincoln

There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters.
This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above. — Alice Thomas Ellis

One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not? — Bryan Sykes

What would I do if I weren't afraid? Haw — Spencer Johnson