Fornella Quotes & Sayings

Petunia Temminnick's coming-out ball was pronounced a resounding success by all in attendance. There had been highly intoxicating punch, a variety of dances, good music, and intermission entertainment. No one knew why the beautiful Miss Pelouse had stripped, rolled about in the garden, and then chucked a cheese pie at the youngest Temminnick girl before being taken away in floods of tears, but it was surely the highlight of a most enjoyable evening. — Gail Carriger

If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal. — R.A. Torrey

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage! — Jordin Sparks

People assumed Melissa was vegetarian out of cussedness, or maybe as an outlet for the empathy she didn't expend on human beings, but it was sloppy thinking she hated. She cared little for the suffering of cattle or sheep but why eat them and not dogs? It wasn't so much a belief as the obvious thing to do. She hated injustice without feeling much sympathy for those who had been treated unjustly. She thought that all drugs should be legal and that giving money to charity was pointless. And she liked the fact that these opinions made her distinctive and intelligent. In many respects she was like her father. Not the dirt under his nails, not the prickly pride in his under-education but the way his sense of self depended so much on other people being in the wrong. — Mark Haddon

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before. — Taylor Swift

Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I never shut up now so maybe that's what happens, you get born and act the same your whole life. — Steven Herrick

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life. — Peter Cullen

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice. — Arne Jacobsen

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. — Alice Walker

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters will often help me write the book - not what they look like that's not very important - what people look like is not about their character. You have to describe the shape they leave in the world, how they react to things, what effect they have on people and you do that by telling their story. — Terry Pratchett

The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity. — Thucydides