Friday Excellent Quotes & Sayings

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. — Malcolm Bradbury

Who needs a bladder when you need an alarm clock — T. Haque

If there were a Pulitzer for bleak irony, however, it would go to the News for its Saturday-morning report on one of the most important local stories of the year - the Galveston count of the 1900 U.S. census, which the newspaper had first announced on Friday. The news was excellent: Over the last decade of the nineteenth century, the city's population had increased by 29.93 percent, the highest growth rate of any southern city counted so far. — Erik Larson

Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion. — Andre-Marie Ampere

That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. I dare say I would've cut his throat had not the unmentionables distracted me from doing so. — Seth Grahame-Smith

The poet is a good citizen turned inside out. — William Butler Yeats

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. — Cat Stevens

Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal. — Nina Sankovitch

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity. — Jacqueline Susann

Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town. — Stephanie Danler

Now they are both looking at me and smiling. Carly's smile is so bold, so certain. Jenni's is tentative, flashing wide for a second and then disappearing. 'Everything all right?' I ask. 'Carly was just telling me about your holiday,' Jenni says. There is a pause. 'And the party.' 'Party?' 'For bonfire night. — Amanda Robson

Did not want to "just have some office job and work nine to five like everyone else." Ian was on a sneaky search for glory. He suffered less from the tyranny of the should than he did from the tyranny of the should-not. His — Meg Jay