Gettting Quotes & Sayings

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection. — Lynn Coady

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos. — Igor Stravinsky

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be. — Alexander Gordon Smith

If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him. — Phyllis Diller

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. — Warren Beatty

You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. So instead of being happy for me, like any normal person, you're pissed off because ooh, oh no, Hassan doesn't like me anymore. You're such a sitzpinkler. You're so goddamned scared of the idea that someone might dump you that your whole fugging life is built around not gettting left behind. Well, it doesn't work, kafir. I just - it's not just dumb, it's ineffective. Because then you're not being a good friend or a good boyfriend or whatever, because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you. There's your goddamned Theorem. — John Green

Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks. — Liv Ullmann

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. — Jim Sensenbrenner

I think a great piece of outerwear can really make you stand out. — Garance Dore

I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other. — Alex Ebert

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends — Victor Hugo

I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires. — Barbara Kingsolver

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? — Wendelin Van Draanen