Curiositys Quotes & Sayings

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? — Frederic Bastiat

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales. — Rose George

The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians. — John Stuart Mill

You know as much as I do sister. The old bastard is off that way-' he nodded over a rise on the other side of the road '-but of course he hasn't told me what he's doing. For all I know, he could be chasing squirrels to make a necklace from their little squirrel balls.' He looked content not to move from his position. — Julie Kagawa

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa. — Lloyd Kaufman

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me. — Lauren London

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital. — Kevin O'Leary

At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination. — Muriel Spark

I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl. — Homer

If we don't establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. — Sunday Adelaja