Lutelyre Quotes & Sayings

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat. — William Safire

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print - I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books: "Gretchen. Wilhelm, where is the turnip? "Wilhelm. She has gone to the kitchen. "Gretchen. Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden? "Wilhelm. It has gone to the opera. — Mark Twain

She could always talk me into anything. My sister made me a little starstruck. — Stacie Ramey

The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals. — Peter Hook

Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper. — Ted Nelson

Actors make choices for different reasons. — Stacy Keach

Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream. — Christian D. Larson

We know there are three little words branded inside my heart: Jonah was here. — Emery Lord

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. — James Earl Jones

I've gone from being a brilliant captain of a TV soccer team to an average rugby player on a real team. I've gotten so used to ruling the roost and just saying whatever the hell I wanted, and I had to get back to reality. — Tanc Sade

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and
unnecessary. — Edith Wharton

THE ADVENTURE OF THE RETIRED COLOURMAN — Arthur Conan Doyle

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. — Sydney Smith

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there ... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College ... and she was delivering a speech there. — Al Michaels

He wasn't a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That's about all it takes to bang my gong. — Diablo Cody