Is Rarely A Verb Quotes & Sayings

It rarely snows because Antarctica is a desert. An iceberg means it's tens of millions of years old and has calved from a glacier. (This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russia Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.) I saw hundreds of them, cathedrals of ice, rubbed like salt licks; shipwrecks, polished from wear like marble steps at the Vatican; Lincoln Centers capsized and pockmarked; airplane hangars carved by Louise Nevelson; thirty-story buildings, impossibly arched like out of a world's fair; white, yes, but blue, too, every blue on the color wheel, deep like a navy blazer, incandescent like a neon sign, royal like a Frenchman's shirt, powder like Peter Rabbit's cloth coat, these icy monsters roaming the forbidding black. — Maria Semple

Because forcing our beliefs upon you is not just. You must give up this shadow of life on your own, not because we force you to. — Rhys Hess

She was like a disease that came along every few years, contaminating everyone in her path. — Tarryn Fisher

Beautiful girls who love too much, as Lindsay appeared to have done, often meet unpleasant ends. — Meg Cabot

I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant. — John Boozman

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. — George Orwell

Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it. — Cate Tiernan

Everybody knows what God is,' said his mother. 'You feel what God is, don't you? — David Guterson

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye — Beyonce Knowles

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue. — Kiese Laymon

If you can do it then why do it? — Gertrude Stein

If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you. — Amit Kalantri

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see. — Moby