Flipped 2010 Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Mr Bliss looked grave. 'Your brother was very sensible to warn you, Miss Astley - but sadly misinformed. There are no trams in Trafalgur Square - only buses and hansoms, and broughams like our own. Trams are for common people; you should have to go quite as far as Kilburn, I'm afraid, or Camden Town, in order to by struck by a tram — Sarah Waters

But mostly, I remembered what I've always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it's your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid?
Gotta go with stupid.
It's not the easy way out. Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that's tough. — Katherine Applegate

My father was absolutely no good. — Charles B. Rangel

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee. — Marcus Aurelius

My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself ... — Munia Khan

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries. — Edward Hirsch

it's been laid on my heart and I want to help others get away from abusive spouses. — Carolyn Brown