Devastatingly Gorgeous Quotes & Sayings

Wait. Please." Odette touched his hand. She wasn't sure what to say to him, but she couldn't bear for him to leave. "Stay with me." He stared down at her hand and bowed his head over it. She couldn't resist lifting her other hand to touch his hair. It was as soft as she thought it would be. When he didn't move, she slowly wrapped a lock of it around her fingertip. There was sadness in the way his shoulders and head were bowed. — Melanie Dickerson

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. — Euripides

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. — Martin Sheen

You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube ... the more you play with it, the harder it gets! — Val Venis

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work. — Tracy Morgan

I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett) — Plato

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. — Edith Wharton

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance. — Lena Horne

To hear how much of a great human being you were - even if you really weren't - open your ears at your funeral. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. — Anne Sullivan

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time. — Steve Wozniak

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck. — Bonnie Raitt

I've now interviewed a couple hundred researchers in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and China. I visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where I met brain-injured veterans. I went to the San Francisco offices of Lumosity, the biggest online provider of these cognitive games aimed at improving intelligence. And I met twice with the guy who leads the funding in this area at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA. It's a government intelligence agency, like DARPA for spies. — Dan Hurley