Constance Constraire Quotes & Sayings

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency. — William Shatner

You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge. — Trenton Lee Stewart

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. — David Levithan

Knowledge seems like magic to the ignorant. — Amish Tripathi

But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way. — Donna Tartt

Don't be afraid to say no to projects. Prove that you're serious about specialization by turning down work that falls outside your area of expertise. The more people you say no to, the more referrals you'll get to people who need your product or service. — John Warrillow

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that ... [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet. — Julian Barnes

I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought I'd go mad, if I stayed. — Sarah Rayner

God gives me all the willingness I need today to sit quietly and listen.
from Time for Joy — Ruth Fishel

What you do for 23 hours of your day will always have a greater bearing than what you do for 1 hour in the day. — Rujuta Diwekar

Any sport that comes from Scotland is good! — Leslie Nielsen

Some man would come to her room. Maybe she would hesitate, and he'd grab her, pin her to the mattress, force her to cooperate. — Cherise Sinclair

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners! — Rik Mayall

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude. — Frederick The Great

The View from Europe And that was Africa: the long line to the south little higher than the Atlantic that defined it. The sea rolled its drums on the shore, broke in white foam, flowers for the hair of the girls. I sipped the wind with my nostrils, and the smell was the smell of fear. Two million- year-old skulls surfaced from soil fathoms, grinning their disdain at the accuracy of the new weapons. And that was Eden indeed: Adam was black and the woman, Eve, was black; and the serpent, master of the click languages, spoke to them sibilantly of how the machine would sound as it waited under the tree of death, offering them nothing but a pretence of life. 1988 — R.S. Thomas