Compliquer Quotes & Sayings

Belatedly, I notice how much easier it is to walk on these sticks when you can't feel your legs. Lesson number one for hooch wear, be drunk. It might make dancing more of a challenge, but I wasn't feeling a thing and it was beautiful. — Harper Sloan

The morning skate was a game-day ritual dating back to the seventies, introduced in North America by the Russians, and used as an attendance taking to make sure players who may have been out carousing the night before finished sweating the alcohol out of their system before the game. — Shawna Richer

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government. — Ted Cruz

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past. — Gene Wolfe

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. — Irwin Shaw

Her oceans were as toxic as the race of men who dwelled on her surface and called the blue planet home. — Kevin Laymon

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly

You said to me once that you weren't what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that's caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you're gods' blessed for no other reason, it's for that. — Melina Marchetta