Devlynne Shannon Quotes & Sayings

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. — Jonah Lehrer

I believe that that responsibility that reporters have is worthy of me showing them respect, and that's what I try to do on a regular basis, and I have been pleased that most reporters have reciprocated and shown me respect as well. — Josh Earnest

And yet you take away the one little ewe-lamb of pleasure that I have in this dull life of mine. Well, perhaps generosity is not a woman's most marked characteristic. — Thomas Hardy

Lady Warminster represented to a high degree that characteristic of her own generation that everything may be said, though nothing indecorous discussed openly. Layer upon layer of wrapping, box after box revealing in the Chinese manner yet another box, must conceal all doubtful secrets; only the discipline of infinite obliquity made it lawful to examine the seamy side of life. If these mysteries were observed everything might be contemplated: however unsavoury: however unspeakable. — Anthony Powell

He stopped, because he wasn't sure what Cryptography had established, and because he needed another moment to haul himself down from the ledges of her high cheekbones, to retreat from the caves of her eyes. — Samuel R. Delany

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. — Anatole France

There's no sense in trying to be or look like anyone other than yourself. — Leighton Meester

How terrible it would be if all my people had been turned human by well-meaning wizards - exiled, — Peter S. Beagle

And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us — Will Carleton