Comprehended Crossword Quotes & Sayings

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant
the little spitfires! — Thomas Carlyle

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter is the best medicine in the world. — Milton Berle

Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "You (censored) - (deleted) - (omitted) - (unprintability)", he roared. — Murray Leinster

Most / of those he interviewed for the science project had to admit they did not hear the cries of the roses / being burned alive in the noonday sun. Like horses, Geryon would say helpfully, / like horses in war. No, they shook their heads./ Why is grass called blades? he asked them. Isn't it because of the clicking? / They stared at him. You should be / interviewing roses not people, said the science teacher. Geryon liked this idea. / The last page of his project / was a photograph of his mother's rosebush under the kitchen window. / Four od the roses were on fire. / They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets / and howling colossal intimacies / from the back of their fused throats. — Anne Carson

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became. — Rachel Ward

I've been clawing my way to directing since I was a kid. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I am going to seek the great Perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need. — Sabine Baring-Gould

The sexy magazine in Britain in that time was called Club International. Club International: It was about as international as the International House of Pancakes. It should have been called Naked Cockney Girls with Scurvy. — Craig Ferguson

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. — Christian Marclay

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable? — HENRY MANNE