Convino English Quotes & Sayings

I have come up the hard way. — Johnny Olson

The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn.
The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn.
While the Lily white shall in love delight.
Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. — William Blake

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out. — Zooey Deschanel

Sellswords put gold before honor. — George R R Martin

There is no place on this universe where there is no way to reach it! There is always a way to everywhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. — Max Born

The square of every prime number is one more than a multiple of 24. — Matthew Parker

I got my own back. — Maya Angelou

I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. — Debbie Peterson

That's where the importance of nurturing comes in; the already sculpted personality is not recast, but refined. Loving, caring families can sand and polish, but they can't chip away at a lawn ornament and turn it into Michelangelo's David. Or vice versa. Want another analogy? Regarding personality, I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you're a spice cake you're a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food. — Lorna Landvik

Love is for children and dimwads. — Ellen Hopkins

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here. — Haruki Murakami

This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology). — Richard Eyre

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak. — Albert Camus