House Stayed Or Staid Quotes & Sayings

One of the bonds between Lily and me is that we both suffer with our teeth. She is twenty years my junior but we wear bridges, each of us. Mine are at the sides, hers are in front. She has lost the four upper incisors. It happened while she was still in high school, out playing golf with her father, whom she adored. The poor old guy was a lush and far too drunk to be out on a golf course that day. Without looking or given warning, he drove from the first tee and on the backswing struck his daughter. It always kills me to think of that cursed hot July golf course, and this drunk from the plumbing supply business, and the girl of fifteen bleeding. Damn these weak drunks! Damn these unsteady men! I can't stand these clowns who go out in public as soon as they get swacked to show how broken-hearted they are. But Lily would never hear a single word against him and wept for him sooner than for herself. She carries his photo in her wallet. — Saul Bellow

I wish I was a little bit taller, — Skee-Lo

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need. — Michael Chang

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels! — John Irving

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing. — Victor Hugo

I will forever and always identify with Scarborough - no matter where I move. — Lilly Singh

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. — Gene Wolfe