Expurgatorial Quotes & Sayings

Crawford was home for a month from the hospital, the chest pains came again in the night. Instead of calling an ambulance and going through it all again, he chose simply to roll over to the solace of his late wife's side of the bed. — Thomas Harris

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality. — Judy Cannato

Okay, so how, exactly, did I get into this mess - up onstage at a comedy club, baking like a bag of French fries under a hot spotlight that shows off my sweat stains( including one that sort of looks like Jabba the Hutt), with about a thousand beady eyeballs drilling into me? — James Patterson

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity. — Jim Harrison

Afraid of the tangle of words twisting around my own tongue, I swallow and place my hand against the thick wood of the Barrier. — Carrie Ryan

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words. — P. J. O'Rourke

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began. — Chris Cleave

Poetry is life and life is poetry. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy. — Maeve Binchy

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. — Kedar Joshi

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect. — Leon Battista Alberti

What a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system! — Robert Purvis

There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now.
(on David Beckham) — Nick Hornby

If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again. — Robert Osborne

But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely. — Peter Hook