Costard Couleur Quotes & Sayings

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It was stupid how a rumor could all but fuck up your life. How what others thought of you really affected how they treated you. — J.L. Beck

These are the insidious monsters in our heads making us do ourselves in. — Chris Shelton

Everyone knows that road, the one leading out of town into a deep green expanse of pastures and old farmhouses, which at first makes it seem like you're entering a fairy tale, something sweet and old fashioned and lost in time. But, like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you aren't anticipating. — Sarah Addison Allen

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. — Eddie Izzard

Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right? — Kayla Harrison

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear. — Ban Ki-moon

It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.) — Marisha Pessl

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. — Abraham Lincoln

Homework is the new family dinner. — Jennifer Senior

Beldin sighed. "Since you're going to be such a spoilsport for this, Pol, I found a
group of sheephenders below the snow line."
"Shepherds, uncle," she corrected.
"It means the same thing. If you really look at it, it's even the same word,"
"Shepherd sounds nicer."
"Nicer." He snorted. "Sheep are stupid, they smell bad, and they taste worse.
Anybody who spends his life tending them is either defective or degenerate. — David Eddings

Proving one's innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto for
a honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dear
ones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have your
freedom. — Sheeja Jose

You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is. — Angel Kyodo Williams

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time. — Jascha Heifetz

He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.
p92 — Frances O'Roark Dowell