Geprikkelde Quotes & Sayings

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not. — Edgar Allan Poe

We've told men for so long that we're equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now they're afraid to offer in case we accuse them of sex discrimination. If you were a man would you buy a woman underwear? I wouldn't dare. What if she throws it back in your face and calls you a sexist pig? So they've tried to turn into new men, but that's no good either, because now we're telling them to be masculine. We don't just want them in a pair of Marigolds cleaning the oven, that's not good enough. We want them to take control, to whisk us off hotels, buy us dinner, and make mad passionate love to us all night. We want it all ways. We want them heroes and handy with the vacuum. No wonder the poor guys are confused — Alexandra Potter

The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica. — Jimmy Cliff

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised. — Ameen Rihani

Joy needs no object; it is our own nature. — Sathya Sai Baba

It'll be okay. She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say? — Suzanne Weyn

Dialogue cannot exist without humility. — Paulo Freire

And to Conrad, it seemed as though he had entered some strange world beyond our own, where nothing was as it appears, and anything could be possible. — Jonathan Maberry

I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it. — Catherynne M Valente

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. — G.K. Chesterton

He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up. — Karin Slaughter