Diddling Quotes & Sayings

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? — Maria Edgeworth

There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it. — Sheri Fink

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives. — Vincent Van Gogh

Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it. — Stephen King

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front. — George Benson

Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again. — Axl Rose

Indra Haiku
Diddling Ahala,
Indra, the Thousand-Eyed God,
flecked with vaginas. — Beryl Dov

I wanted to structure a day where a hypothetical random snapshot of me looked like Carrie Bradshaw in her kimono, totally relaxed, not Brittany Murphy in Girl, Interrupted, diddling an old chicken under her bed. The — Jessi Klein

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine. — Robert Moses

Her eyes met mine again. "So what does this mean for us?"
I lowered my forehead to hers. "It means you're mine. — Katie McGarry

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility. — James Wolcott

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that. — Junot Diaz

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself. — Sue Monk Kidd

The gentlemen would like to know if'- he cleared his throat- 'that boom was as bloody brilliant as they thought it was. — Ally Carter

Yes, there had been many times I called my daughters back to zip up their coats. All the same, I knew they would rather be cold and free. — Deborah Levy

Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture the gods, diddling around on Olympus, wallowing in the nectar and ambrosia and the aroma of burning bones and fat, mischievous as a pack of ten-year-olds with a sick cat to play with and a lot of time on their hands. 'Which prayer shall we answer today?' they ask one another. 'Let's cast the dice! Hope for this one, despair for that one, and while we're at it, let's destroy the life of that woman over there by having sex with her in the form of a crayfish!' I think they pull a lot of their pranks because they're bored. — Margaret Atwood

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all. — Mario Cuomo

I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lathering for I was feeling in mid season form this morning. — P.G. Wodehouse

Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you. — George Foreman

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know. — Marian McPartland

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. — Dave Barry

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god. — John Ralston Saul

When nothing is done, nothing is won! — Israelmore Ayivor

Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids. I mean, my mum and dad loved me, they were, like, interested in me when I was growing up in the nineties, but they weren't, like, obsessed with me. — Liane Moriarty

I've done what I've always wanted to do. But as one Senator said, just because you're doing what you've always wanted to do, it doesn't mean you have to do it forever. And it's very taxing in terms of the travel, the running around. — Russ Feingold