Doppelpunkt Tastatur Quotes & Sayings

The old women were gone. They seemed to have ascended into the darkness like the waxy smoke from the candles after he capped them with the brass bell at the end of the snuffer. For a moment, staring into the darkness, he imagined the rafters full of smoky old women with hair sprouting from their chins. Hundreds of them. Thousands. Whispering in Italian, and Polish, and Latin about dead husbands and dead children. Like angels grown old but not allowed to die. He could smell them: the odor of candles. — Pete Hamill

Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first! — T.F. Hodge

He pushed enthusiastically, his biceps standing out on his arms like peas on a pencil. — Terry Pratchett

Money does talk, but it has a limited vocabulary. — Margaret Atwood

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being. — Caitlin Moran

in the grocery store. Our obedience to God is evidence — Stormie O'martian

For some natures learn with greater difficulty and after greater delay than others, that the real importances of our existence are the nothingnesses of every-day life, the nothingnesses which the philosopher in his study, reasoning about and analyzing human character, is apt to overlook; but which, nevertheless, make him and everyone else more of a human reality and less of an abstraction. — Beatrice Harraden

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them. — Fred Wilson

Digital communication is such a problem sometimes. — John Green

Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests. — Catherynne M Valente

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press? — Hillary Clinton

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it. — Andrew Niccol

Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water! — Groucho Marx