Dinand Library Quotes & Sayings

Clearing his throat, he rumbled, "Miss Darling, a word if you please."
"Sesquipedalian," she said, keeping her back towards him.
The strange response momentarily stunned him. "Pardon?"
Turning around, she leaned against the counter and grinned at him, "You asked for a word and I gave you one. It means 'many syllabled' and while it's exceedingly pretentious it is a lot of fun to say. Sesquipedalian; it tangles up the tongue and then just falls right off.
"Or perhaps you would prefer a different word?" she continued guilelessly and he was completely charmed by her. "Tittle, which is the little dot over i's and j's; or Ornithopter, an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings; Tuatha De Danan Lora or Expector Patronum?"
"Now you're just making words up," he grinned, and realized he had missed talking to her. — A.C. Warneke

You get comparisons with anything in life. I think that if you [are] taking the time out to compare me to somebody, then I must be doing something right. — Kirko Bangz

Fifty points from Gryffindor for lateness, I think," said Snape. "And, let me see, another twenty for your Muggle attire. You know, I don't believe any House has ever been in negative figures this early in the term: We haven't even started pudding. You might have set a record, Potter. — J.K. Rowling

Crepuscular rays of light illuminated the interior of the Basilica, Moretti, faithful — Daniel Silva

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven. — Lesley Visser

She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry. — Kate Chopin

A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing. — Dru Pagliassotti

I love the person I've become, because I fought to become her. — Kaci Diane

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it. — Tim Howard

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map. — Rory Stewart

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change. — Byron Katie

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure. — Annabella Sciorra

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces — Christopher Paolini