Illegitimately Define Quotes & Sayings

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind. — Merlin Olsen

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different. — Christopher Meloni

It is not known why motorists, who sing the joys of the open road, spend so much petrol every week-end grinding their way to Southend and Brighton and Margate, in the stench of each other's exhausts, one hand on the horn and one foot on the brake, their eyes starting from their orbits in the nerve-racking search for cops, corners, blind turnings, and cross-road suicides. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Breathing is a lot like creativity. Like an inhale, you receive an inspiration, you let it run through the unique magnificence of who you are, and then you release it into the world, letting it go, unattached to the way it needs to look. — Jill Badonsky

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. — Voltaire

I liked roaming around by myself. — Jimmy Rushing

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller. — Waris Ahluwalia

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing. — Avril Lavigne

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him. — Cormac McCarthy

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs. — Ann Landers

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You guys are ridiculous," he says, retreating back to the kitchen.
"Your flirting just scared the hell out of me."
"Scared the hell out of me too. — Pittacus Lore