Funny Bloody Mary Quotes & Sayings

When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like. — Karl Popper

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink. — Madeleine L'Engle

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Remind me to tell the High Septon," said Tyrion. "If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious." He — George R R Martin

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus. — Maria Semple

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works. — Italo Calvino

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs. — Franz Grillparzer

You are supposed to stand before a congregation, brimming over with a great message. Here I am trying to find a new little message each Sunday. If I really had great convictions I suppose they would struggle for birth each week. As the matter stands, I struggle to find an idea worth presenting and I almost dread the approach of a new sabbath. I don't know whether I can ever accustom myself to the task of bringing light and inspiration in regular weekly installments. How in the world can you reconcile the inevitability of Sunday and its task with the moods and caprices of the soul? The prophet speaks only when he is inspired. The parish preacher must speak whether he is inspired or not. I wonder whether it is possible to live on a high enough plane to do that without sinning against the Holy Spirit. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Oh! what does grief matter - what does misfortune matter, if one knows how to be happy? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Like the pioneering Muslim scientists, Al Bukhari insisted on an empirical, organized method in the science of fiqh and hadith — Firas Alkhateeb

Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business. — Francine Pascal

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Whenever I hear a man or women express hatred for any race, I wonder just what it is in themselves they hate so much. You can always be sure of this: You cannot express hatred for anything or anybody unless you make use of the supply of hatred within yourself. The only hatred you can express is your own personal possession. To hate is to be enslaved by evil. — Thomas Dreier