Insistent Def Quotes & Sayings

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs. — Shawne Merriman

I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, "Will you bring me a glass of water?" I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, "Do you remember when you were a little boy and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?" Yeah. "You know how half the time you weren't even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep." She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this. — Dito Montiel

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day. — Jordan Sonnenblick

Cover your cocks," the men sailors sometimes joked. "They're always hunting sodomites."
"What do they do to sodomites?" Baru asked.
They looked at her with some astonishment. "Hot iron," one said. "Hssssssssss. — Seth Dickinson

Who has two thumbs and isn't an idiot? — R.S. Penney

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye? — Morrissey

Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things: - [1.] It will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour. [2.] It will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace. [1.] — John Owen

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. — John Ortberg

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana. — Rick Yancey

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings. — Jose Mourinho

I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point. — Andy Weir

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. — Georges Bataille