Diminutives List Quotes & Sayings

In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world — Chika Onyenezi

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah. — Lupe Fiasco

My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement. — Ed Oxenbould

I've got Democratic skin, but a Republican pocket. — Marlon Wayans

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says. — Kerry Greenwood

The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used. — Andrea Dworkin

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day. — Paula Radcliffe

The pair stood watching each other, still as statues, moments ticking by like hours as the gale howled about them.
"You have very good ears, sir." she finally said.
"You have better feet, Pale Daughter. I heard nothing."
"Then how?"
The boy offered a dimpled smile. "You stink of cigarillo smoke. Cloves, I think."
"That's impossible. I'm upwind from you."
The boy glanced at the shadows moving like snakes around his feet.
"Seems to be raining impossible in these parts. — Jay Kristoff

I feel like this song [Yello, "Oh Yeah"] was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio. There was probably no thought behind it; they were just playing with some samples and threw it together. I feel like there's no dream behind the song. Usually there's a dream or some kind of passion attached to a song. This song feels very empty. It made a lot of money for the songwriters but at the expense of culture. — Margaret Cho

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite. — Murray Walker

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. — Joan Didion