Izvledas Quotes & Sayings

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants? — Peter Brimelow

You know how it's crazy embarrassing to watch a movie with your parents when a steamy love scene comes on? You basically wish the couch cushions would swallow you and suddenly the condition of your nail beds is far more interesting than what's on the screen? — Jen Malone

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise. — Nicolas Chamfort

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables. — Jamaica Kincaid

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J. Peter

I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.' — Olga Kurylenko

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Women are less aesthetic than men. — Alice Eve

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. — Barbara Tuchman

The previous day and the day yet to come hang in a balance, each waiting for the other to make a move. — Maggie O'Farrell

Awaale cursed softly, but he was smiling. "I am only saying God might have sent me for the little one
not for you."
"That makes more sense," I replied. "I was going to kill her, Awaale. The gun was an inch from her head and I was pulling the trigger ... "
"But you did not."
"No. I saw he was feeding, and I panicked."
"Ah, you mean you were meant to save him."
"I am not meant to save anyone!" I snapped. I was suddenly very angry. "I am here to serve the doctor, who's here to serve ... to serve science, and that's all. That's all."
"Oh, walaalo." He sighed. "You are more pirate than I ever was. — Rick Yancey

This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me. — Rod McKuen

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest. — Stockard Channing