Herland Book Quotes & Sayings

What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever changing a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids. And nor do you think about your husband waking up in the morning being someone you don't recognize. If anyone thought about any of these things, then no one would ever get married. In fact, the impulse to marry would come from the same place as the same impulse to drink a bottle of bleach, and those are the kind of impulses we try to ignore rather than celebrate.
So we can't afford to think of these things because getting married - or finding a partner whom we will want to spend our lives with and have children by - is on our agenda. It's something we know we will do one day, and if you take that away from us then we are left with promotions and work and the possibility of a winning lottery ticket, and it's not enough. — Nick Hornby

In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people. — Kris Kidd

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character. — Donald Sinden

The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers' money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity. — Verghese Kurien

I have a really supportive, great group of friends, and we all push each other. They come to my shows, I go to their premieres; it's wonderful. — Elle King

Entwined with the strand of conservatism in the Democratic party is the strand of empiricism. — Dean Acheson

[The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented ...
Faulkner in the University, 117 — William Faulkner