Deftly Def Quotes & Sayings

You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror.
It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence.
"A dead man", I think. He's not far wrong. — Markus Zusak

I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now ... being a bit wilder maybe! — Liam Payne

Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in fame and everything that issued from fame was inevitably diminished. Fame's message was unadorned. Fame and literature were irreconcilable enemies. — Roberto Bolano

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. — Jules Verne

This must be what a fly felt like when it was caught fast in a spider's web. — R.K. Lilley

Absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells. — Trevor Noah

Don't use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe. — Joel Osteen

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite. — Boy George