Drossiness Quotes & Sayings

Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl's dream. — Reem Acra

Whatever else the election of Barack Obama represented - some have called it redemption, others have called it the triumph of style over substance - it was the ultimate victory for people who believe that black political gains are of utmost importance to black progress in America. — Jason L. Riley

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me. — John Green

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot. — Dennis Miller

Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills. — Abhishek Ratna

Why should God's perfection be based on having an unchanging nature?" I asked. "Isn't flexibility more perfect than stasis? — Sue Monk Kidd

The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work. — Philippe Petit

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity. — Penny Marshall

The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be. — Guy Ritchie

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters. — Dinaw Mengestu

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable. — Donald Rumsfeld

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. — Pierre Bayle

refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion. — Various

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Denial is strong with this one. — Felicia Day