Hacis Haxby Quotes & Sayings

187. Is it a related form of aggrandizement, to inflate a heartbreak into a sort of allegory? Losing what one loves is simpler, more common, than that. More precise. One could leave it, too, as it is.
Yet how can I explain, that every time I put a pin in the balloon of it, the balloon seems to swell back up as soon as I turn away from it? — Maggie Nelson

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous. — Jay Leno

Different people work different ways. — Tony Gilroy

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England. — Edie Campbell

He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using. — Miriam Toews

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us. — William Feather

With my last nickel I went there for a cup of coffee. — John Fante

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. — Robert Duvall

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom. — Ludwig Von Mises

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear. — Marie Dressler

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.' — Ray Winstone

I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers. — Penny Marshall

My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. I often feel like I'm pretending, because it's still hard for me to believe it when I see someone holding a book that I've written. — Kimberly Willis Holt

She hated those boys and knew that they were stupid and hence their opinions were baseless and the impact of their lives on the planet would be measured only in undifferentiated emissions of methane and nitrates . . . but still. — J. Ryan Stradal

Music is a reservoir ... of sounds. — Dexter Gordon