Mojibake Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see. — Mark Twain

I remember that through all chaos or problems, there is a solution. So I separate myself for just a moment, whether that means zoning everyone out or taking a little walk to get some fresh air. I take this time to clear my head, breathe and reassess the problem and how I'm feeling. — Allison Holker

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing. — Molly Ringwald

What must do the hard thing? He who can. — Graeme Simsion

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly. — Desiderius Erasmus

I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow. — Markus Zusak

I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us. — Lesley Gore

God works in mysterious ways, baby, and there is never more evidence of this than when your life is going along fairly well, actually sailing. The sensation of wind through your hair becomes, for an extremely brief time, commonplace. It is then that God lowers the cosmic boom. He will not show up; that is the kind view. The unkind view is that he sits back to watch with a high-ball and a bowl of nuts. — Suzanne Finnamore

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable. — Jamie Hyneman

But Istanbul is a city of easy forgettings. Things are written in water over there, except the works of my master, which are written in stone. — Elif Shafak