Disertando Quotes & Sayings

[J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue
indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with. — Robert A. Heinlein

Daddy said that nobody really wins a war. They only make it look that way. — Arlene Eisenbise

Shut off the internal bashing. — Melody Carlson

Stepping onto the bath mat, that was also done in that god-awful deep pinky red, he toweled himself off.
Still erect.
Glancing at his fighting clothes, he found himself loath to put them upon his skin. Rough. Scratchy. Dirty.
Mayhap the feminine environment was contaminating him.
Xcor ended up in the big bed, naked, upon his back.
Still erect. — J.R. Ward

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps — George MacKay

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening. — Sadie Calvano

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you. — Eleanor Brownn

Robert rode beneath the banner of Carrick, the dragon shield on his left arm. He wore it proudly now in common cause; this symbol of Arthur, the warrior king. As he caught sight of Humphrey, the knight raised his fist in a defiant gesture that Robert returned. Today, God willing, they would finish this campaign. He wanted to return home blooded, to be able to tell his grandfather that he too had won his spurs in the king's war. Nerves and anticipation battled within him, his breaths coming hard and fast in the tight encasement of his helm. — Robyn Young

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better. — Steve Breen

Sometimes, the only way to deal with adult reality was to indulge in a good thumb sucking while wrapped in a nice blanket. — R.J. Blain

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited. — George Herbert

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. — Dee Snider

I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from. — Sue Whitaker

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame. — Mickey Rourke