Inculcating Def Quotes & Sayings

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. — Ida B. Wells

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense. — Emily Dickinson

But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing. — Robert Graves

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. — Johnny Cash

Good girl," he tells me in a sultry deep voice. Hearing him say, "Good girl" makes me feel satisfied, like I've just made him happy. It gives me an odd sense of comfort. Truly, I'm not sure why I care to make him happy. — B.S.M. Stoneking

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and the cure would have been radical, if disappointment in love, and total solitude, had not conspired to bring on a relapse. — Thomas Love Peacock

His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn't that he didn't condone them; he couldn't understand them. — Maggie Stiefvater

Running footsteps sounded in the background, but it was only Daddy, so he ignored it. — Thea Harrison

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark. — Anne Lamott

What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways. — Miguel

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. — Nick Cave

After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow. — Salman Rushdie

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market. — Shawn Fanning

Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin — Lisa Kleypas

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire. — Ron Perlman