Generally Crossword Quotes & Sayings

They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grins at me. "And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning. — Maggie Stiefvater

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. — Groucho Marx

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

dozing on horseback
smoke form the tea-fires
drifts to the moon — Basho Matsuo

Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany ... After, I'm guessing, amnesia ... — Emo Philips

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it. — Margaret Heffernan

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. — Adora Svitak

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done. — Jerry Bruckheimer

The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. — Susan B. Anthony

Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like ... Professor Hawking's Brief History of Time. That was a book that had been bought by millions, but had been demonstrated to have been read by only a minute proportion of those who had acquired it. For do we not all have a copy of that on our shelves, and who amongst us can claim to have read beyond the first page, in spite of the pellucid prose of its author and his evident desire to share with us his knowledge of ... of whatever it is that the book is about? — Alexander McCall Smith

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation ... and instead to revel in the mystery. — Jerusalem Jackson Greer

Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support. — E. M. Forster

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? — Irv Kupcinet

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives. — Jeffrey Deitch