Dispensed Crossword Quotes & Sayings

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. — Martin Amis

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted. — Trey Gowdy

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose. — Arija Bareikis

Smartass Disciple: Master, I feel really really confused about the truth.
Master of Stupidity: Only confused? Walk in my shoes then you tell me. — Toba Beta

I can tell you that she's not breathing," he said. "She has no heartbeat and all organ function and brain activity have stopped. Also her body temperature is now at seventy-three degrees."
"So you're saying that she's dead," I said.
"Well, I can't prove it, but, yes, I am leaning that way. — John Zakour

My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human. — Saul Bellow

I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do. — Melody Beattie

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won. — Terry Pratchett

Nature will always be nature. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza?" he had asked in the great essay on dirty postcards. "Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of you that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a little fat man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul. — George Orwell

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time. — Johan Santana

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more. — Jules Renard

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning. — Northrop Frye