Diffident Synonym Quotes & Sayings

But as the prey evolves (and we are prey to the Mad who are pursuing us, desperate to impart their own brand of truth to the hapless commuter) so does the hunter, and the true professionals begin to tire of that old catchphrase "What you looking at?" begin to tire of that old catchphrase "What you looking at?" and move into more exotic territory. Take Mad Mary. Oh, the principle's still the same, it's still all about eye contact and the danger of making it, but now she's making eye contact from a hundred, two hundred, even three hundred yards away, and if she catches you doing the same she roars down the street, dreads and feathers and cape afloat, Hoodoo stick in hand, until she gets to where you are, spits on you, and begins. — Zadie Smith

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. — George R R Martin

To you I belong.My heart beats only for you.No other will tempt me,from this day and beyond.To you I belong. — Gena Showalter

We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar). — M. Basil Pennington

When you finish a film, you never want to see it again. — Ingmar Bergman

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Evelyn Waugh

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew. — Edmund Wilson

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it. — Alicia Keys