Defensively Speaking Quotes & Sayings

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work. — Nick Park

Amiable weaknesses of human nature. — Edward Gibbon

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall

One thing about trust is that everyone's for it. — Stephen Covey

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone. — Gia Coppola

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry
until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings. — Gail Carson Levine

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all
isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth. — W. H. Auden