Lexicographers Study Quotes & Sayings

Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one. — Louis L'Amour

There was no hope in death, only an end. — Morgan Rhodes

Janvier was six feet three inches of pure indulgent sex. He wasn't even trying to project that at this instant - his sexual attractiveness was innate, created by his confidence, the lithe strength of his body, the lazy smile that said he knew every sin and had invented a few new ones. — Nalini Singh

Warren and his boyfriend had put on a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends who didn't have families to go home to. Being gay meant they had a number of friends with no welcoming families. Mary — Patricia Briggs

Punpun was just fine again today. — Inio Asano

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind. — Matthew Macfadyen

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head — Swami Satchidananda

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie. — Jeff Bridges

The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death. Mabel — Colson Whitehead

It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As a substitute for a longing for the father, it contains the germ from which all religions have evolved. — Sigmund Freud

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. — Theodor W. Adorno