Crosswise Crossword Quotes & Sayings

polite conversation is rarely either — Fran Lebowitz

I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first language can be written down at all. — Claire-Louise Bennett

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. — A. N. Wilson

The dark place with the lousy color TV that unshaven and unemployed men spend the day watching game shows on? Where the piss in the men's room smells two thousand years old and there's always a sodden Camel butt unraveling in the toilet bowl? Where the beer is thirty cents a glass and you cut it with salt and the jukebox is loaded with seventy country oldies? — Stephen King

When you touch me I die, just a little inside, I wonder if THIS COULD BE LOVE — Lady Gaga

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff. — Greg Proops

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it. — Charles Krauthammer

The ludicrous fever of toys struggling skyward, the sky itself more and more remote, the wind tearing the awning of cloud to tatters, pale limitless blue and green recessions laced with strands of scud, the light failing - once she would have noticed these things. — Samuel Beckett

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach. — Pete Carroll

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building. — Swami Vivekananda

I flushed - this time not in shame - but in rage. — Aspen Matis

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible. — Heinrich Boll