Dirty Martini Quotes & Sayings

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. — T. S. Eliot

If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad. — C.S. Lewis

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you
less'n he wants to lose it! — Eugene O'Neill

Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.' — Jim Gaffigan

When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it. — Marcus Aurelius

Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop. — Miranda Liasson

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter. — J.A. Konrath

The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing. — Susan Howatch

I held her shoulder blades, caressing the grooves of her ribs, scooping her in my arms and feeling her tense muscles loosen up. She was indeed a dirty martini with a twist. — Kavipriya Moorthy

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me. — William Ernest Henley

Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom. — David Wojnarowicz

I'm not a mistake, McKenzie, — Sandy Williams

When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me! — Suge Knight

But now, I am addicted to the peace and calm of being alone. There is something so soothing about solitude that I have no urgent wish to give it up and connect with people. — Kavipriya Moorthy

Time has passed through me and become a song. — Holly Near

Your presence resembles a dirty martini,
she only drinks it when she's thirsty. — Shannon Lynette

With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. He neither inherited a barn nor a title, nor even a young wife. But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father's lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future. It was slow and painful. But he threw himself into it like one possessed. And indeed he was possessed by the fear of his father's contemptible life and shameful death. — Chinua Achebe