Duckie Pretty Quotes & Sayings

Life is a book. We write in everyday existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,
And sing our bondage freely. — William Shakespeare

You want the guy who'll get your medicine in the middle of the night, even in a blizzard, even after twenty years. You want the guy who shows you every day, shoveling the walk, carrying your groceries, shows you how much he loves you. It's not about talking the talk, — Amy Bloom

How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely. — Bryant McGill

My eyes open wide. It worked. One by one, the Watchers nod in my direction with respect in their eyes. — Susan Ee

My life is my book, but I can't read it. — Marty Rubin

He was sensitive, so he had to be kind. I think of it whenever I see a young woman fawning all over a nerdy guy, some comedian or actor, thinking he couldn't ever be cruel because he's funny and he wears glasses. He's not conventionally hot, so he's not full of himself, so he'll be a good boyfriend, right?...Guys like that always seem to think they're Duckie from Pretty in Pink when they're actually Steff. — Mara Wilson

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles. — Jill Clayburgh

Does this feel warmer or colder? — Martha Beck

I missed the idea of marriage, the one you had when you were young and emotionally unblemished. — Tarryn Fisher

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts. — Michael Pollan

Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity. — David Whyte

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it. — Donald Miller

The land list of 1625 specified that he had a 200 acre grant in this vicinity. Perhaps, he was established here well before the massacre. When the Indians descended on his place, he must have been away, for his wife stood her ground as she did later when the Colony officials sought to force her to vacate the now isolated post. It is reported that "Mistress Proctor, a proper, civill, modest gentlewoman ... ["fortified and lived in despite of the enemy"] till perforce the English officers forced her and all them with her to goe with them, or they would fire her house themselves, as the salvages did when they were gone.... — Charles E. Hatch

Life without the courage to die is slavery. — Seneca The Younger