Flaggers Quotes & Sayings

Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans. — Ruth Rendell

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift ... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others. — Barry Humphries

Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public. — Isaac D'Israeli

I'd prefer to stand when ladies are standing," he said quietly to Livia.
She longed to smooth a balm on all his wounds. "Blake, I'm exhausted. What I really need is a nice, strong lap to sit on to get me out to the car."
He reached up and stroked her hair. "I could be a lap for you, my tired angel. — Debra Anastasia

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them? — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan. — Jonathan Stroud

Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin. — Richard M. Weaver

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny. — Jack Nicholson

As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there's no small number of lawyers who wind up crushed under the weight of the infinite caseloads and the crappy hours and the shitty pay. — Jodi Picoult

Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it. — L.M. Montgomery

The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind. — Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight. — Buzz Aldrin

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. — Dorothy Parker

Bob from the early days of Disney. They were conflicted, therefore, about using certain newer technologies - VHS videotape, for example - that had not existed in the studio's heyday. If Walt's Nine Old Men didn't use videotape, Andrew remembers telling Bob McCrea one day, maybe he shouldn't either. "Don't be an idiot," Bob said. "If we'd had those tools then, we would have used them. — Anonymous