Default Smart Quotes & Sayings

I walked out of the classroom and felt like dancing and singing. It all gave me hope. It gave me a little bit of joy. And I kept trying to find the little pieces of joy in my life. That's the only way I managed to make it through all of that death and change — Sherman Alexie

Just keep filling up the pages. — Lauren Graham

The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, the anxiety of always. — Sherry Turkle

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go . — John Stuart Mill

They had stumbled either upon a serious flaw in modern financial markets or into a great gambling run. Characteristically, they were not sure which it was. As Charlie pointed out, It's really hard to know when you're lucky and when you're smart. — Michael Lewis

I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process. — Carolyn See

Wait," he said, and he had his hand outstretched toward me, fingertips just brushing the sleeve of my sweatshirt, gently rooting me to the spot. I wanted to shrug him off, but at the same time, I wanted to fall against him and bury my face in his shoulder. I wanted to commiserate about what had just happened, and make sure he was okay, and discuss how Stanton really is psychotic. I did none of the above. — Emma Mills

It's all very well for me to tell myself there are no provincial cities any more and perhaps there never were any: all places communicate instantly with all other places, a sense of isolation is felt only during the trip between one place and the other, that is, when you are in no place. I, in fact, recognize myself here without a here or an elsewhere, recognized as an outsider by the nonoutsiders at least as clearly as I recognize the nonoutsiders and envy them. — Italo Calvino

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive. — Arthur Conan Doyle

And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical
because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Even a dozen soldiers couldn't make her feel as safe as Valten could. — Melanie Dickerson

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. — Geoff Hoon

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married. — Mary Badham

I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play? — Marion Bartoli

I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors. — Linda Ronstadt

Trying to solve a problem before being taught the solution leads to better learning, even when errors are made in the attempt. — Peter C. Brown