Learedius Quotes & Sayings

And Mom doesn't like anyone cutting her flowers, so I cut up her magazines instead. Do you like it? — Ryan Loveless

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused. — Jodi Picoult

Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear. — Toni Morrison

What's the most important quality a person could have, something that would benefit us all? — Sue Townsend

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children. — Lucy Robinson

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern ... Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. — George Orwell

I could read and walk four miles an hour. — Orison Swett Marden

No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it. — Stacy Schiff

He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers. — R.D. Ronald

There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. — Tom Lehrer

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me. — Donald Kagan

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession. — David Mamet