Ginger Snaps The Beginning Quotes & Sayings

Jerome Falsoner, aged forty-five, was a bachelor who lived alone in a flat on Cathedral Street, on an income more than sufficient for his comfort. He was a tall man, but of a delicate physique, the result, it may have been, of excessive indulgence on a constitution none too strong in the beginning. He was well-known, at least by sight, to all night-living Baltimoreans, and to those who frequented race-track, gambling-house, and the furtive cockpits that now and then materialize for a few brief hours in the forty miles of country that lie between Baltimore and Washington. — Dashiell Hammett

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love ... — William Butler Yeats

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense? — Henry James

You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that. — Terry Pratchett

I like the idea of Warrior Flitwick running to save the day by screaming, Let's do some charm harm, my snitches! — Dan Bergstein

Silicon Valley is to the United States what the United States is to the rest of the world. — Michael Lewis

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? — Oscar Wilde

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her. — Elizabeth Bowen

Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other's lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand leaves us a new canvas with each wave. — Elizabeth Alexander

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. — George Meany

Jared hadn't planned it, had never even thought about it, but he couldn't control taking complete possession of her mouth with a bruising kiss. He wanted to insult her, to further humiliate her, to shatter her damned poise. But her body was so female, her lips so soft, warm, virginal, that what had been hurtful and brutal became tender, seeking, questioning. — Sandra Brown