Convenes Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again. — Walter Scott

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No. — Alan Sugar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief. — Akshay Kumar

They ate silently for a few minutes as she studied him.
"I need a shave," he said when he caught her staring.
She lifted a shoulder in a shrug. "It's not bad."
"I'd scrape your delicate skin if I tried to kiss you."
"Want to find out?" she asked with a mischievous smile. — Donna Grant

They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets. — Ward Churchill

If your prospect like your product, they'll tell 10 people. If they don't, they'll tell 1,000. — Timi Nadela

She looked at him with bright golden eyes, and he ruffled her thick grey fur. Shortly, Jory brought him Ice. When — George R R Martin

The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths. — Barack Obama

The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension. — Wassily Kandinsky

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. — Caitlin Flanagan

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What I told you about saving people isn't true. You might think it is, because you might want someone else to save you, or you might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really. Not from yourself. [ ... ] You fall asleep in the foothills, and the wolf comes down from the mountains. And you hope someone will wake you up. Or chase it off. Or shoot it dead. But when you realize that the wolf is inside you, that's when you know. You can't run from it. And no one who loves you can kill the wolf, because it's part of you. They see your face on it. And they won't fire the shot. — Ava Dellaira

Someone should have the right to choose Mexican or Chinese food for dinner, or where to live, or what kind of car to drive. Of course we are pro-choice on these and thousands of other things. But we aren't pro-choice about rape. And we aren't pro-choice about burglary. We aren't pro-choice about kidnapping children. So why should we be pro-choice about killing them? — David Platt

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. — Democritus

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing. — Nana Mouskouri