Cringed Shirt Quotes & Sayings

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers. — Mahatma Gandhi

[French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to say bonjour, they must teach her how to eat. — Pamela Druckerman

He would never forget her. The distance he forced had done nothing to soothe his aching soul. It had done nothing to diminish that she was his. He tried to deny it at first, thinking it nothing more than a cosmic mistake, but after a month without a glimpse of her, there was no question.
She belonged to him. — J.L. Sheppard

What's on your shirt?" she asked suddenly. "Darth Vader," I answered briskly. For someone who held me in such obvious contempt, she asked a lot of questions. "So you're a Trekkie." This was a statement rather than a question. I cringed. "Not exactly." "I think Star Trek is silly." "Not — James Ramos

When a person does aggravate like a plaguing itch, acceptance is no matter. — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down. — T. Boone Pickens

You've got to be a little nasty out there. But most of the time, I'm having fun. — Brian Urlacher

They rode on. The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the round earth rolled beneath them silently milling the greater void wherein they were contained. In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinships. — Cormac McCarthy

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young. — Honore De Balzac

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way. — Daniel Handler

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still. — Winston Churchill

Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays — Friedrich Schiller