John O'brien Leaving Las Vegas Quotes & Sayings

I don't want any money for it," he said. "It's a gift." Scarlett's mouth dropped open. The line was so closely, so carefully drawn where gifts from men were concerned. "Candy and flowers, dear," Ellen had said time and again, "and perhaps a book of poetry or an album or a small bottle of Florida water are the only things a lady may accept from a gentleman. Never, never any expensive gift, even from your fiance. And never any gift of jewelry or wearing apparel, not even gloves or handkerchiefs. Should you accept such gifts, men would know you were no lady and would try to take liberties. — Margaret Mitchell

He is anxious to know how you have been employed during your long absence from him, how you have been treated by your persecutors, and if they have conducted themselves towards you with all the deference due to your rank. Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering; — Alexandre Dumas

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart. — Ross Macdonald

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. — Lamar S. Smith

A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel. — Sam Yagan

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing biological specificity the chemical basis of which is as yet undetermined. — Oswald Theodore Avery

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait. — Paul Strand

If you really want to do, be or have anything, then first destroy your greatest enemy 'doubt'. The manifestation of your desire is directly proportional to how much you believe. — Hina Hashmi

Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us. — Robert Dubois

There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth. — Marty Rubin