Meretricious Persiflage Quotes & Sayings

Someone said, "Backsliding is not a blowout. It's a slow leak. — Don Sisk

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person. — Laurie Anderson

O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen. — David Brainerd

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky. — Talia Shire

She doesn't have anyone. For reasons we cannot comprehend, the Good Lord doesn't always reward us during our lifetime. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked. — Deepak Chopra

Humanity is a hunchback who, in ignorance of the fact that it is possible not to be hunchbacked, for thousands of years has sought an indication of a Higher Necessity in his hump, because he will accept any theory but the one that says that his deformity is purely accidental, — Stanislaw Lem

Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door — Garrison Keillor

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. — D.H. Lawrence

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. — LL Cool J

When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or told from my perspective. — Nas

It was like some mad scientist threw a bunch of DNA into a blender and this is what came out. What the heck could it be? Was it some kind of alien? A scientific experiment gone horribly wrong? Did we have a Dr. Frankenstein living in Billings? Seriously, the creature looked like a resurrected Wookiee made from spare parts. — Kendra C. Highley

I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope. — Elizabeth Arden

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance. — Dalai Lama

Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. — Harper Lee