Difater Quotes & Sayings

I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them. — Erica Bauermeister

What are you so pleased about?"
"I only drink a little at a time, like half a cup ever four or five months, to maintain my current age. Half a cup has a mild laxative effect."
"What kind of effect?"
"Laxative. It means it loosens the bowels."
"Half a cup has ... But you just had me drink a whole pot!"
"That's why I brought you the shovel ... — Kevin Hearne

If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself. — Gloria Burgess

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are. — Henry David Thoreau

My father once told me that some men are not worth having," Jon finished. "A
bannerman who is brutal or unjust dishonors his liege lord as well as himself. — George R R Martin

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. — John Green

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. — St. Jerome

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice. — Joanne Harris

He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway ... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved. — Lauren Bacall

When I was in Nashville, I went to our Macy's and went and tried on all the Hannah Montana stuff. Then I said, 'This is weird, I'm wearing my face. — Miley Cyrus

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers. — Mercy Otis Warren

Prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them ... without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions ... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat. — Joan Didion

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? — Gregory Peck

The storm drowns the ship,
but it does not drown the fish. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Credit, youre jewish, your best friend is black, and your girlfriend is a cheating whore. Even if I wore gay, I'd still have it better than you. — Tucker Max