Grousing Machine Quotes & Sayings

Then he realized that Salander was in costume. Usually her style was sloppy and rather tasteless. Blomkvist had assumed that she was not really interested in fashion, but that she tried instead to accentuate her own individuality. Salander always seemed to mark her private space as hostile territory, and he had thought of the rivets in her leather jacket as a defense mechanism, like the quills of a hedgehog. To everyone around her it was as good a signal as any: Don't try to touch me - it will hurt. — Stieg Larsson

When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all. — Michael Moorcock

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable. — Blaise Pascal

I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have. — Fergus Henderson

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause. — Ludwig Feuerbach

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. — Charlotte Bronte

Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment. — Hosea Ballou

We want to feel our power and independence, our ability to shape our existence, but we also want to trust that life supports, nourishes, and sustains us. — Elisa Romeo

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. — Phoebe Cary

Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama. — Martin O'Malley

it's just a shame how that Hurricane Katrina tore up New Orleans and Mississippi. They knew better than to name a storm after a black woman. "Katrina." Not only was that bitch black, but the way she tore shit up, "Katrina" must have been from the projects too! — Ron'Netta LeDoux-Henderson

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes. — Lisa Kleypas

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep. — Sean Parker