Gimmicky Synonym Quotes & Sayings

All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. This couldn't be it. It had been diverted elsewhere, to somebody else, and he'd been issued this shitty substitute faux life instead — Lev Grossman

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. — Charles Dickens

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up, — Alex Bogusky

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in. — Margaret Smith

Mankind Needs To Fit Into God's Agenda So As To Fulfill Purpose — Sunday Adelaja

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts — Jose Saramago

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good. — Saint Augustine

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. — Barack Obama

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do. — Jason Robert Brown

I'm afraid to close my eyes, I'm afraid to open them — Heather Donahue

What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist. — Karl Barry Sharpless

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller. — Isabel Gillies

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life. — John Assaraf

Haida preferred to listen to instrumental music, chamber music, and vocal recordings. Music where the orchestral component was loud and prominent wasn't to his liking. — Haruki Murakami