Freading Instructions Quotes & Sayings

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is. — Diana Vreeland

I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance. — Eliza Dushku

I shutter to think your demon fingers ever held my gentle skin. Your aged, jaded heart ever held me-if even for a moment-inside hers. I shake when I think your name knows mine, your lips have touched mine.
You didn't break my heart, you tortured her. And for what, but the bitter revenge of the one who had destroyed you, long before I even knew you.
I could say you are dead, but you are very living. You live to destroy, as you were once destroyed. You live to kill. — Coco J. Ginger

The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own. — Dorothy Dunnett

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good. — James McGreevey

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed — Winston S. Churchill

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again. — Seanan McGuire

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of. — Stephen King

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. — Sigmund Freud

Why reproduce if you believe the world is ending?
Because the world is always ending for each of us and if one begins to withdraw from the possibilities of experience, then no one would take any of the risks involved with love. — Ben Lerner

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. — Lion Feuchtwanger

But if that were the case, why did I feel like he was ripping out my heart? — Claire Contreras