Misstatement Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions. — Harriet Lerner

When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast. — Ian Beattie

Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake — Shelby Foote

Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. — David Mitchell

If I'm forced to be honest, here's an account of how I left the world last week: worse, worse, better, worse, same, worse, same. Not an inventory to make one swell with pride. I don't necessarily need to make the world a better place, mind you. Today, I will live by the Hippocratic oath: first do no harm. How — Maria Semple

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents. — Doris Lessing

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. — Graham Greene

I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving. — Anthony Trollope

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed ... — Julian Barnes