Divacoutoure Quotes & Sayings

Be your own guide, follow your own movement. — Heavy D

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats. — Charles Simic

What do you mean? Leslie's voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day. — Patricia Briggs

I'm going to go down swinging ... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament. — Andre Agassi

In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer. — Alexander Strauch

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides. — Marston Bates

Jesse rounded forward under the towel and cozied his feet in the bath water. It was as if no one else were around and Jesse was once again alone and at ease with his meditations. He said, "I can't figure it out: do you want to be like me, or do you want to be me? — Ron Hansen

Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. — Ted Lowe

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. — Robert Breault

Life is not all about what you hope to get but what you hope to give". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

His manner of asking personal questions was of that kind not uncommonly to be found which is completely divorced from any interest in the answer. He was always prepared to embark on a lengthy cross-examination of almost anyone he might meet, at the termination of which - apart from such details as might chance to concern himself - he had absorbed no more about the person interrogated than he knew at the outset of the conversation. At the same time this process seemed somehow to gratify his own egotism. — Anthony Powell

A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark Twain, is sixteen minutes too long. Technical note: It is better to tell a eulogist to speak for four minutes not five minutes. "Five minutes" to the modern ear sounds like "around five minutes," whereas "four minutes" means "four minutes. — Christopher Buckley

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter. — Anne Roiphe

I have been drunk now for over two weeks. — Jimmy Buffett

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor