Conversationally Speaking Quotes & Sayings

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. — Samuel Johnson

I am cotton candy on a rainy day
the unrealized dream of an idea unborn

from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day — Nikki Giovanni

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. — Kevin Smith

I have this thing that keeps me from being interested in prom dresses, it's called a penis. — John Green

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I've done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me. — Ivo Andric

No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself. — Liu Cixin

The despot subdues his subjects, some of them by means of others, and thus is he protected by those from whom, if they were decent men, he would have to guard against himself; just as, in order to split wood, one has to use a wedge of the wood itself. Such are his archers, his guards, his halberdiers; not that they do not suffer occasionally at his hands, but this riff-raff, abandoned alike by God and man, can be led to endure evil if permitted to commit it, not against him who exploits them, but against those who like themselves submit, but are helpless. — Etienne De La Boetie

Etta, you don't have to . . . I never meant . . . You love those books." "No, Daniel." She yanked her arm from his grasp and slapped the remaining book against his chest. "I love you. The books were just a way to pretend that a part of you could actually belong to me." The defiance faded from her eyes to be replaced by abject misery. "And now you never will." Dan — Karen Witemeyer