Knopf Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

How'd you come up with cemetery?" Julian asked Nick.
"Call it divine inspiration."
"Yeah, I'm betting God was invoked a lot last night," JD said under his breath.
"Shhh," Kelly begged. — Abigail Roux

I told him because I wanted what everybody wants - to be known. To know oneself, and to tell the whole story of that self, and to be loved anyway. — Jan Ellison

Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist. — Clayton Christensen

I won't lie and say I didn't think about it, but I decided to stay. I trusted you more than I was scared
of him. So trust me now if you can. I'm not going anywhere. I'll take care of Kevin until you return. — Nora Sakavic

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss," "passion," and "rapture" - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. — Gustave Flaubert

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything. — Warren Littlefield

I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought. — Jenny Lewis

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up! — Patsy Kelly

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many. Everything in politics encourages more red tape - everyone insists government must step in - 'something must be done' is always the cry. We have to resist these pressures. — George Osborne

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. — Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. — Diane Setterfield

I began high school in 1959, B.C. (before cable). — Danny Dunne

Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it. — Otis Chandler

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures. — William F. Buckley Jr.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon. — Douglas MacArthur