Figurated Quotes & Sayings

Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman. — James Fenimore Cooper

'Silver Linings' has proved a golden opportunity for me. — Anupam Kher

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. — Oscar Wilde

Why did all the hot guys have to be such jerks, and why did I still want to sleep with them? — Tara West

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere. — Tao Okamoto

Although I was deliberately dismissive of this idea at the beginning of the chapter, the real answer is, "Well, yes, sort of." Nathan DeWall, together with Naomi Eisenberger and other social rejection researchers, conducted a series of studies to test out the idea that over-the-counter painkillers would reduce social pain, not just physical pain. In the first study, they looked at two groups of people. Half of them took 1,000 milligrams a day of acetaminophen (that is, Tylenol), and half of them took equivalently sized placebo pills with no active substances in them. Both groups took their pills every day for three weeks. Each night, the participants answered questions by e-mail regarding the amount of social pain they had felt that day. By the ninth day of the study, the Tylenol group was reporting feeling less social pain than the placebo group. — Matthew D. Lieberman

When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow. — Jason Evert

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write. — Jane Hamilton