Degutted Quotes & Sayings

The way my luck is at the moment," said Polly, "I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole. — Jenny Colgan

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. — Robert Green Ingersoll

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
And no one can help me. Not even you. — Ray Bradbury

Each day a day goes by. — Carlo Goldoni

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.] — Terry Pratchett

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. — Cormac McCarthy

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it. — Demi Lovato

you must thoroughly analyze a company, and the soundness of its underlying businesses, before you buy its stock; you must deliberately protect yourself against serious losses; you must aspire to "adequate," not extraordinary, performance. — Benjamin Graham

So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of. — Dashiell Hammett

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love? — Wendy Shalit