Dimey Quotes & Sayings

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time. — Tatyana Tolstaya

An individualist town councillor will walk along the municipal pavement, lit by municipal gas and cleansed by municipal brooms with municipal water and - seeing by the municipal clock in the municipal market, that he is too early to meet his children coming from the municipal school, hard by the country lunatic asylum and the municipal hospital, will use the national telegraph system to tell them not to walk through the municipal park, but to come by the municipal tramway to meet him in the municipal reading-room, by the municipal museum, art-gallery, and library, where he intends ... to prepare his next speech in the municipal town hall in favor of the nationalization of canals and in increase of Government control of the railway system. "Socialism, Sir," he will say, "don't waste the time of a practical man by your fantastic absurdities. Self-help, Sir, individual self-help, that's what has made our city what it is. — Sidney Webb

Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! — Jerry Spinelli

Are cobwebs a treat where you come from? — Darren Shan

I'm frightened of interviews. — Rik Mayall

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing. — Gerda Lerner

Lust makes you insane, love gives you sanity. — Jeffrey Fry

A small village lay just over the farthest hill. When he had to feed, he went there. And when he left after feeding, the people he'd met, even those he'd fed upon, immediately forgot he'd been there at all. Every time he entered the village, the residents greeted him as a new visitor. That was his power, his curse, his salvation; no one remembered him. — Linda Howard

This party is turning out to be the turd-encrusted cherry on the top of my shit-shake of a day. — Jody Gehrman

Free was harder to trace...safety always trumped guilt. — Stephenie Meyer

Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge. — Vladimir Nabokov