De Facto Salon Quotes & Sayings

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. — Bette Davis

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance. — Rebel Wilson

There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money. — Ehud Olmert

You know America has a way of turning everything into an illness that needs medicine. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me. — Jamie Ford

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection. — Francoise Sagan

What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory. — Hilary Kornblith

Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has. — Gilberto Gil

I was told he could never go back, for he had shot his own grandfather out hunting and his family would impale him if he fell into their hands. Turks are never convinced by a hunting accident, especially if it is the heir who removes the owner of numerous flocks. All the same, Joseph was an honourable knight; perhaps his grandfather really did look like a deer. — Alfred Duggan

We often hear of someone saying, 'So you don't trust me' or 'Are you questioning my integrity?' or 'You don't believe me.' They get defensive and angry because someone questions their actions, and they think they are above being questioned or having to prove their trustworthiness. But none of us is above questioning. — Henry Cloud

Book. Candle. Nico. — Lili St. Crow

Cautious human beings do not presume to write history on a day's notice. They are aware of the damage mistakes can cause. My father believed that mistakes could always be corrected in the next edition. — Pete Dexter

People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore. — Joe Goddard