Empress Of Blandings Quotes & Sayings

You deserve to have a prosperous and abundant life! — Lynn A. Robinson

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast). — John Scalzi

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read. — David Sedaris

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point. — Mason Cooley

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? — Richard Russo

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them. — Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes I cannot understand the things men do. The way they gnash and tear at one another - it's worse than wolves or foxes. — Janette Oke

So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back. — William J. Clinton

In the happy times, in the tell-me-again times, when I'm seven and there are no stepbrothers and it's before the stepfathers, my mom lets me sleep in her bed.
Her bed is a raft on the ocean. It's a cloud, a forest, a spaceship, a cocoon we share. I stretch out big as I can, a five-pointed star, and she bundles me back up in her arms. When I wake I'm tangled in her hair.
"Tell me again," I say and she tells me again how she wanted me more than anything.
"More than anything in the world," she says, "I wanted a little girl. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt

I've been waiting a long time for last year. But I guess it's just not coming again. — Philip K. Dick

And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call maturity. — Paulo Coelho