Foxface Saltwater Quotes & Sayings

Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead. Biological reductionism nurtures this 'living down', which is why people so readily fall for it. It makes cynicism respectable and degeneracy chic. It abolishes our kind, and with it our kindness. — Roger Scruton

I am about to say something that must have been said by men to women several times before"I informed her , "However, I don't believe that these words have ever carried quite the freight they carry now."
"Oh?"
I spread my hands, "Here we are. — Kurt Vonnegut

I've always got a sweet tooth. I have chocolate hidden in places that nobody knows about. — Tony McCoy

For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline. — Louis Menand

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. — Emma Watson

You let him go? What the devil for?"
"Something's wrong with his eyesight." Any man who mistook Miss Turner for a dockside whore had to be losing his vision. — Tessa Dare

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. — Douglas MacArthur

But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic — Allan Bloom

9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control! — Jay Leno

You'd better hope they're not checking chromosomes at the door. — John Irving

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. — Fred Tomaselli