Gefilte Fish Fish Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing — Hilaire Belloc

So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment. — Zora Neale Hurston

I want Scott to look at me the way Patch looks at you. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years. — Carolyn Heilbrun

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends. — Syd Barrett

Losing myself interests me. The fertile topsoil interests me, sprawling beneath a light dusting of snow, and the snow that crams the trunks and branches of the pines and elms and redwoods, having frozen up their roots, subdues me to consider life and death. What lurks beneath the ground? Surely dead seeds and frozen worms reside deep below that earth, and surely all those presentiments of life lying dormant, dead or dying, scattered and mute, like memories. — S.K. Kalsi

Teach French and unteach sincerity. — Leo Tolstoy

If you know anything of science, madame, you must know that water is but ice given energy. — Gene Wolfe

The calm troubled him; the fact that the physical absence of pain could elicit such a mental absence of panic was at once unnerving and rather fascinating. — V.E Schwab

Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death. — Colson Whitehead

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. — Gerry Lindgren