Innocente In English Quotes & Sayings

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children. — Angela Carter

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. — Minna Antrim

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together. — Warsan Shire

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on. — Harold Ramis

If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office. — Andrew Ng

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. — William Safire

One often has need of one, inferior to himself. — Jean De La Fontaine

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels. — William Monahan

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies. — Mario Vargas-Llosa