Lomongo Quotes & Sayings

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason. — Mike Comrie

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe. — Billy Joel

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. — Atom Egoyan

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men. — William Penn

Is it necessary, do you think,' he began, leaning in so close behind me that I could smell his breath, 'for the purpose of visiting your grandmother's childhood home, to dress like a kindergarten whore? — Danielle Wood

What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process. — Patricia Heaton

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. — Harold Brodkey

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. — Mark Twain

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. — Bella Abzug

If you don't have any weird moments, you're weird — Bertie Gilbert

...you see what you want
and you want what you see,
but if I have anything to say about it,
that will
never
be
me. — Holly Bodger

Because hope is a knife that can cut through the foundations of the world, said Sumi. Her voice was suddenly crystalline and clear, with none of her prior whimsy. She looked at Nancy with calm, steady eyes. Hope hurts. That's what you need to learn, and fast, if you don't want it to cut you open from the inside out. Hope is bad. Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left. Ely-Eleanor is always saying 'don't use this word' and 'don't use that word,' but she never bans the ones that really bad. She never bans hope. — Seanan McGuire

He was a noisy robust little man with a gleam of real talent concealed in the messy obscurity of his verse. But because he did his best to shock people with his monstrous mass of otiose words (he was the inventor of the "submental grunt" as he called it), his main output seems now so nugatory, so false, so old-fashioned (super-modern things have a queer knack of dating much faster than others) that his true value is only remembered by a few scholars who admire the magnificent translations of English poems made by him at the very outset of his literary career, - — Vladimir Nabokov