Estirado English Quotes & Sayings

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out. — Emily Haines

Death is like the insect
Menacing the tree,
Competent to kill it,
But decoyed may be.
Bait it with the balsam,
Seek it with the saw,
Baffle, if it cost you
Everything you are.
Then, if it have burrowed
Out of reach of skill -
Wring the tree and leave it,
'Tis the vermin's will.
Of Nature I shall have enough
When I have entered these
Entitled to a Bumble bee's
Familiarities. — Emily Dickinson

Where I come from you don't get to call a scene a scene until someone pulls out a knife or starts throwing broken beer bottles. — Jayne Castle

I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great. — Taissa Farmiga

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more. — J.M. Barrie

It almost makes me cry to tell, what foolish Harriet befell. — Heinrich Hoffmann

Americans just don't understand dry wit. — John Oliver

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either. — Jodi Picoult

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records. — Andrew Bacevich

isn't all that unusual to me. The fact that they're all magic users is more interesting than their sleeping arrangements. — Zoe E. Whitten

You think we woke them?" She turned on her side and leaned on her hand. The way her breast rolled on top of the other one almost made me hard again. "No. I think we were fairly quiet, considering." She blinked a couple times and frowned at me. "Considering what?" "Considering that I came so hard, if I didn't have a condom on, you'd already be pregnant with quadruplets. — Beth Ehemann

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens. — Jami Attenberg

We shall dismiss these with the observation that their work does not concern "investors" as the term is used in this book. — Benjamin Graham

Names came patterning into the dusk, bodying out the places of their forebears, the villages and towns where the telegrams would be delivered, the houses where the blinds would be drawn, where low moans would come in the afternoon behind closed doors; and the places that had borne them, which would be like nunneries, like dead towns without their life or purpose, without young men at the factories or in the fields, with no husbands for the women, no deep sound of voices in the inns, with the children who would have been born, who would have grown and worked or painted, even governed, left ungenerated in their fathers shattered flesh that lay in stinking shellholes in the beet crop soil, leaving their homes to put up only granite slabs in place of living flesh, on whose inhuman surface the moss and lichen would cast their crawling green indifference. — Sebastian Faulks

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. — Charles De Gaulle