Hellenes Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

O prize exceedingly the matchless power and grace which changes deserts into gardens, and makes the barren heart to sing for joy. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

[On Oscar Wilde:]
If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927] — Dorothy Parker

How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly. — George Gissing

You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became part of a team of people making movies. I wasn't a woman choreographer. I was a choreographer. — Anne Fletcher

Callie tucked her brother into bed, and once he fell asleep, she left her room in search of her husband. She found him outside her door, leaning against the wall with his sword beside him.
"Sin? What are you doing?"
"'Twould appear I am sitting."
"And why are you sitting there?"
"Because it's rather difficult to sleep while standing."
Callie faltered as his meaning became clear. "You are sleeping outside my door? Why?"
"Because if I slept outside of Simon's door, the innkeeper might think I'm strange."
-Callie & Sin — Kinley MacGregor

A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part.
The bigger part hoped he was in the shower. — Jill Shalvis

Art take guts
- None Shall Sleep — T.D. Arkenberg

Success doesn't change you ... It reveals you — Johnny Depp

In Freud's theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant, phallus-favoring, social organization of powers, bodies, and symbols. — Jonathan Ned Katz

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent. — Steve Coogan

Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass? — Mat Johnson

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is. — Philip Agee

Cameron Diaz is probably my biggest beauty mentor of my friends. She knows how to do her own hair and makeup; she's really good at it. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I have absolutely no problem with anyone's life choices. What bothers me greatly is, when they try to force those life choices on others, in any manner. — Shon Mehta

Chafed the hands that held his arm. There, there, there! See — Charles Dickens