Indie Author Community Quotes & Sayings

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class. — Dick Cavett

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. — Derek Jarman

Thus ambitious spirits in a commonwealth, when they transgress their bounds, are apt to do more harm than good. — Plutarch

He thought again of the watch in the window. It had twelve black numbers on its moon face and there was magic to that. For these were numbers that were not really numbers at all but letters like in words. He shivered at the possibilities of such untold magic. — Davis Grubb

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has — Mark Twain

It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other. — Laura Prepon

Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility. — Pat Conroy

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe. — James Badge Dale

I'm not a very brave person. — Claire Denis

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different. — Aleksandr Lebed

Mobile VR will be a lot more accessible. It'll be easier to use; you'll be able to pass it along to your friends. — Brendan Iribe

Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign religion. More mindless loss over beliefs and mythology. But.. he could not deny the noble features in his companions. Although Perfidian was too blithe and Elaina too didactic, they had risked their life to do what was right. He did owe them his life. He could not deny the nobility he saw in many different people, bits and pieces of nobility that shined through under pressure. The guards who risked their lives to protect the villagers, Markham who flew at the dangerous dwarf, swords flashing; even an Eruthian merchant who stopped in his journey to share tales with complete strangers'. — T.P. Grish