Modally Quotes & Sayings

Nick stopped on the sidewalk, pulled a ring from his pocket, and handed it to Kate. "Your wedding ring."
It was a platinum band inlaid with diamonds. Simple but elegant.
Kate put the ring on her finger. "That's got to be the least romantic proposal in history. Where did you steal this?"
"I bought it," he said.
"That must have been a new experience for you."
"It was. Cost me ten grand." He slipped a matching platinum band onto his finger. "I want that ring back when this marriage is over."
"No way," she said. "You can keep the dishes. — Janet Evanovich

People used to think of me as a comedy actor. — Rami Malek

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? — Samuel Hoffenstein

I wish for you a goodnight of sleep, sweet dreams, and a smiling morning. — Debasish Mridha

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim

However things might change around us, we would always be together. — Garth Stein

Learning to combat boredom is a lesson in and of itself and it's one you don't have to drive your kid anywhere for them to learn. — Jenny Lawson

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities. — Kenny Smith

There's a lot of great stuff on TV. — David Giuntoli

CORY: The whole time I was growing up...living in his house...Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. It weighed on you and sunk into your flesh. It would wrap around you and lay there until you couldn't tell which one was you anymore. That shadow digging in your flesh. Trying to crawl in. Trying to live through you. Everywhere I looked, Troy Maxson was staring back at me...hiding under the bed...in the closet. I'm just saying I've got to find a way to get rid of that shadow, Mama. — August Wilson

I wish you could see what I see when I look at you. — Allison Pang

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary. — Galileo Galilei