Desperate Duchesses Quotes & Sayings

Your importance is not in a title, it is in the excellence of your actions. — Patricia Brooks

When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent everything. — Aravind Adiga

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God. — George Bernard Shaw

(On having being just proposed to)
'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.
'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly.
That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age. — Lynne Graham

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did. — Patti LaBelle

I feel in love with you when you had a beard. — Kristen Ashley

Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting. — Thomm Quackenbush

Panic reared up through me, hot and blazing and blurry, and that was it. — Kendall Kulper

I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last
night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my
patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like
me — Elizabeth Gilbert

He thinks that there's no reason to eat breakfast unless Eleanor is there to give him that silly wide grin of hers. He wants to have an argument with her just so he can kiss her into a good mood again. He wants to sleep with her every night, see her holding a baby with brandy-colored hair like hers ... He wants her forever ... He can't bear the idea that she might ever love another man. — Eloisa James

When a student at Pomona told me that she'd love to have a chance to think about the things she's studying, only she doesn't have the time, I asked her if she had ever considered not trying to get an A in every class. She looked at me as if I had made an indecent suggestion. — William Deresiewicz

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.' — Jaime Lerner

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers. — Robin Wasserman

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father. — Alexander McCall Smith