Michaelian Quotes & Sayings

If one plays with fire, one should be prepared to burn, Jane."

"You say that as if I'm in danger from you."

"Maybe you are," Tobias growled as the scent of her invaded his nostrils... — Monica Burns

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part. — Bill Vaughan

My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn't princess material. — Kiera Cass

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. — John Adams

It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me. — David Joy

It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn't old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she'd finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn't seem to give it up. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist. — Paul Krugman

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar. — Richard Corliss

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy. — Charles Grodin

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Have we? Have we lost our light, or have we perhaps just glimpsed it for the first time? — Kristin Hannah

I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death. — Cus D'Amato

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job. — Michael Moriarty

As far as I'm concerned, leopard is a neutral. — Jenna Lyons