Leydy Lopez Quotes & Sayings

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. — Iain Pears

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am. — T. J. Miller

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money. — Russell Brand

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love! — Philip Roth

Eliminating the death penalty ... will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals. — Scott Harshbarger

You may not believe it, but standing up to people is the only way to get through life with your mind intact. Nothing was gained by giving in. — Diana Palmer

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness. — Mark Twain

In the end, I stopped worrying about how strange you seemed. I realized that it didn't really matter if I understood you, because I trusted you. — Brandon Sanderson

What I really wanted more than anything was to put my boss on the floor and stand on his throat and watch him gag. — Scott Carrier

I'm taller than my father, and taller than two of the stones at Ban Drochaid."
"I meant in feet," she clarified. Speaking of the mundane gave her a measure of calm.
He eyed his boots a moment and appeared to be doing some rapid calculations. — Karen Marie Moning

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own. — Erin Morgenstern

Some men and women move mountains, even if it's one shovel full at a time. — K.R. Royal

I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point did I break into a skip — Ben Aaronovitch