Consumacion In English Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so. — William Targ

Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI Joe in the mud, and took it home and I was like, "I got a GI Joe!" And then my great grandmother was like, "You stole that." I said, "What are you talking about?" and she said, "That's not yours." I'm like, "But I found it!" She's like, "But it's not yours, and therefore you stole it." So I just went and put it right back in the mud where I found it. — Baron Vaughn

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. — Bob Geldof

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then. — Douglas Booth

Thomas stood there, sorting through his options. The irony wasn't lost on him. He'd escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday city worker. — James Dashner

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would. — Pico Iyer

Actually, they took turns trying to avoid being the victims. That's the whole point about war! — Margaret Atwood

Wouldn't it fun to be able to communicate with a horse while you were riding it? — Kou Shibasaki

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings. — Robert Farrar Capon

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward

The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that! — Marti Webb

With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken. — Kingsley Amis

For people who dealt largely in dreams, his father was fond of observing, realtors were a surprisingly unromantic bunch, like card counters in a Vegas casino. — Richard Russo