Divertimentos Dos Quotes & Sayings

It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it. — Robin Hobb

I just realized he was phrasing all of his questions as statements. Wasn't there a character in Alice in Wonderland who did that? Did Alice punch him in the face? — David Wong

Green tree. Pretty lady. Car. Car. Truck," she recites, naming out loud almost everything she sees. "Don't mind me, I'm a gabberbox," she chuckles. "A gabberbox?" I ask, confused at her term. "You know, hon, I talk a lot," she explains before breaking into a laugh that is eerily familiar. — John Waters

Blue, largely against her will, glanced to the booth he pointed to. Three boys sat at it: one was smudgy, just as he said, with a rumpled, faded look about his person, like his body had been laundered too many times. The one who'd hit the light was handsome and his head was shaved; a soldier in a war where the enemy was everyone else. And the third was -- elegant. It was not the right word for him, but it was close. He was fine boned and a little fragile looking, with blue eyes pretty enough for a girl. — Maggie Stiefvater

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets. — Lydia Sigourney

Christ, Elizabeth! Get your head back in the game. You're here to do a job, not drool over a hunky Brit. In my hurry to put some distance between me and the sex god, my knees wobble. I clutch the edge of the conference table to keep from — Magda Alexander

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed. — Caetano Veloso

The real explanations are usually the simplest, and often the saddest. — Olga Grushin

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end
So voluble a weapon is the tongue;
Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail
For every man has equal strength to rail. — Homer

We never know where life is going to lead, Ethan. What so many small decisions are going to add up to. — Ali Standish

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio. — Adam Baldwin

someday i will walk
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan

Many times the wrong train took me to the right place. — Paulo Coelho

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things. — T. S. Eliot

Equations are the devil's sentences. — Stephen Colbert