Famous Old Fashioned Quotes & Sayings

I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town. — Luke Harding

In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well ... nothing. — Phoebe Tonkin

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. — George Jean Nathan

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method. — C.S. Lewis

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

We're better off for all that we let in. — Indigo Girls

We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job. — Phil Robertson

But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time. — Julie Anne Long

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith. — Michael Bierut

I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me — Iggy Pop

I'll never believe that money is everything. — Arina Tanemura

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. — Deb Caletti

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. — Lafcadio Hearn

Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits. — Amy Bloom

I stifled a laugh, not sure which was funnier: the idea of me being a lady o him being a gentleman. — Danielle Paige