Flabbergasted Etymology Quotes & Sayings

We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don't need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one. — Nicola Yoon

He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they spent together, including this one. — Rainbow Rowell

The irregularities of the motion of Uranus ... in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.
[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.] — John Couch Adams

Who spends so much time worrying about — Gillian Flynn

Everyone's so full of shit, born& raised by hypocrites. — Green Day

She clutched her manuscript, carrying it tenderly through the crowd, like a live thing that had been hurt. — Edith Wharton

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large. — Shari Arison

Believe it or not, my best meal is to go to the store and buy a DiGiorno pizza, come home, add some fresh Parmesan cheese, and just hang with my family! — Cheyenne Jackson

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. — Fred White

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. — Jessamyn West

People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'. — Tom Cox

The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it! — Carol Leifer

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out. — John Wesley

intriguing, not standard Hollywood stuff. He was not a street kid who'd had to claw his way to respectability. His reasonably well-to-do family's roots traced back to George Washington's mother, and he was always proud of the fact that he was distantly related to "one of the founders of our country." Bill was Irish-English-German, "mixed in an American shaker," as he liked to say. His maternal grandfather was a cousin of Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth president of the United States. Bill had been born William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois, on April 17, 1918. When he was three, the family moved to Pasadena, California. His father, William, was an industrial chemist; his mother, Mary, a teacher. He had two younger brothers, Robert (Bob) Westfield Beedle, and Richard (Dick Porter) Beedle. — Edward Z. Epstein