Famous Outlier Quotes & Sayings

And when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell. — Roald Dahl

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures. — Anne Frank

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish. — Rudy Giuliani

But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it! — Trenton Lee Stewart

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. — Michael Medved

I sometimes think people can see that I'm defective, that there's nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there's nothing to know. I sometimes think I'm this shell and I can't work out why people like me. And when I'm with strangers it reminds me of that. That I'm insubstantial. — Dorothy Koomson

Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy. — Daphne Du Maurier

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at. — Vincent Cassel

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you are afraid, then stay inside your box! — Blanca

Purpose is but the slave to memory,
Of violent birth, but poor validity; — William Shakespeare

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore De Balzac

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man. — William E. Gladstone