Forties Slang Quotes & Sayings

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Clarity Cliche--polished package
that wraps the unwrappable
Here it is, your day

from "Nightly News" in The News: Poems — Jeffrey Brown

We have a fictional "I" that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game. "What will happen? How will it go? Will I get something out of it?" I, I, I - it's a mind game of illusion, and we are lost in it. — Charlotte Joko Beck

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell

but if you get a chance to be the baddest and strongest, always be the baddest and strongest. — Richelle Mead

We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved. — Robert Lanza

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it. — Joan Of Arc

It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S. — Jiang Zemin

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story. — John Romero

Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold. — Mikhail Naimy

Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning. — Monica Wood

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain. — Gary Hamel

And, uh, could I borrow somebody's car? Mine's impounded and I can't reclaim it because I'm kinda legally dead right now. — Craig Schaefer