Downright Or Outright Quotes & Sayings

It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after
they only want to look around and hope to see a book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb, they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1) What is it about? (2) Have you read it? (3) Was it any good? — Mary Ann Shaffer

As I got up, I posed the last question to him. 'Baba, somebody told me that your government has initiated stringent measures for wildlife protection. Is that true?' 'Yes. There is a complete ban on the shooting of tigers and elephants. We have explained the importance of conservation to all the villages and they seem to have understood.' 'I wish our government had been as serious about it,' I told him as we headed for the hut where dinner was waiting for us. Instead — Rajeev Bhattacharyya

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster. — Clive Barker

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. — Haruki Murakami

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat. — Bob Odenkirk

He who faces no calamity gains no courage. — Rudyard Kipling

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler

He winked at my gaping mouth. "I had to keep myself busy to avoid missing you." Mor — Sarah J. Maas

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens. — Carl Jung

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth. — Abbas Kiarostami

Much of what is considered "good" in little girls is considered downright repulsive in little boys. Physical timidity or hypercautiousness, being quietly "well behaved", and depending on others for help and support are thought to be natural - if not outright charming - in girls. Boys, however, are actively discouraged from the dependent forms of relating, which are considered "sissyish" in male children. — Colette Dowling

Will the real Red Reaper please stand up? — Jeaniene Frost

Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need. — Baizhang Huaihai

Vetinari drummed his fingers on the table. "What would you do if I asked you an outright question, Vimes?" "I'd tell you a downright lie, sir." "Then I will not do so," said Vetinari, smiling faintly. — Terry Pratchett