Interjected Def Quotes & Sayings

With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto one of those poor man's pillows which Providence provides on all the street corners of Paris and which the rich disdainfully refer to as heaps of garbage. — Victor Hugo

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great. — Mike D

What to Do During Algebra
O what to do during Algebra!
The possibilities are limitless:
There's drawing, and yawning,
and portable chess
There's dozing, and dreaming,
and feeling confused.
There's humming, and strumming,
and looking bemused.
You can stare at the clock.
You can hum a little song.
I've tried just about everything
to pass the time along. — Meg Cabot

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others. — Raymond Chandler

I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars. — Sarah Monette

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hawk drifted around behind me in $5000 worth of clothes earning his $150 a day. We saw nothing interesting. We — Robert B. Parker

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis. — Jeffrey Sachs

It didn't take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution. — Juliana Barbassa

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized. — Johnny Hunt

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out. — Jennifer Egan

But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though trying to find the cause of her suffering. — Gustave Flaubert

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics. — Alvin Lee