Grammar Listing Quotes & Sayings

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows. — Margaret Atwood

I eat things I shouldn't eat all the time. I have to work out so I can enjoy myself! I like to run, and I'll do body weight stuff: push-ups, squats, lunges, pull-ups. — Carrie Underwood

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again. — Thomas Frank

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself. — Charlie Pierce

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome. — Chuang Chou

Crocodiles, you will say, are stationary. Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not change, - that a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharaohs. That may be; but the reason is that the crocodile does not live fast - he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood among naturalists that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads. — Thomas De Quincey

A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more to me than many friends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster

Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first."
"Excuse me if entertaining you isn't at the top of my agenda. — Nalini Singh

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by — Yann Martel

Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have. — William Goldman

I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest. — Michael Angelakos

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them. — George W. Bush