Criswell Thurmont Quotes & Sayings

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. — Ambrose Bierce

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.
She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'
You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'
That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion. — Agatha Christie

I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous. — Kim Jee-woon

He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken. — Jeanette Winterson

It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun. — Anne Carson

He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read. — Will Schwalbe

She said nothing. She walked beside me, under my elbow sort of, eating. We went on. It was quiet, hardly anyone about getting the odor of honeysuckle all mixed She would have told me not to let me sit there on the steps hearing her door twilight slamming hearing Benjy still crying Supper she would have to come down then getting honeysuckle all mixed up in it We reached the corner. — William Faulkner

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. — Coco Chanel

He who would weigh well and rightly his own doings would not be the man to judge severely of another. — Thomas A Kempis

When faced with the choice, choose happy — Valerie Bertinelli

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic. — Grady Booch

If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people ... — Lee Clow

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. — Yann Martel