Displicentes Quotes & Sayings

They're fairly cuddly, yes," conceded Fred. "But you're moving through boyfriends a bit fast, aren't you? — J.K. Rowling

[Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is concerned with] the need to love the earth and respect nature instead of following the example of those who 'chopped down vast forests to provide the newsprint demanded by that universal literacy which was to make the world safe for intelligence and democracy, and got wholesale erosion, pulp magazines, and organs of Fascist, Communist, capitalist, and nationalist propaganda.' He attacked 'technological imperialism' and the mechanisation which was 'increasing the power of a minority to exercise a co-ersive control over the lives of their fellows' and 'the popular philosophy of life ... now moulded by advertising copy whose one idea is to persuade everybody to be as extroverted and uninhibitedly greedy as possible, since of course it is only the possessive, the restless, the distracted, who spend money on the things that advertisers want to sell. — Nicholas Murray

I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf. — Patti Smith

When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday. — Stephen McCranie

Great times call for great men. — Jaroslav Hasek

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats. — Ari Fleischer

Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do. — Khaled Hosseini

Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping. — R.T. Kendall

There are simply no shortcuts in the long run. — Frank Sonnenberg

Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills. — Chandan Sharma

Tell me half a cup's worth of story and we'll call it a night. — Kelley Armstrong

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. — Chad Harbach

My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight ... I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall. — Jamie Wyeth