Fifty Cent Word Quotes & Sayings

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into. — Lester Bowie

Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling from the precipice.
I tap Zetania's shoulder and ask, "What's a precipice?"
"A cliff's edge," she whispers.
Precipice. Must be a French word. — Daven Anderson

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me ... — Michel Houellebecq

Maybe people really don't change as much as we think. Maybe they just ... maybe they just stiffen up. — Stephen King

I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else. — Shelby Foote

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do. — Mark Twain

For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown. — Orlando Figes

What a fool honesty is. — William Shakespeare

Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently. — Lancelot Andrewes