Moory Def Quotes & Sayings

The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know. — B.F. Skinner

There are also half bricks ... As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob.

Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she only did it when Susan couldn't see. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach ... cockroach ... cockroach ... — Hunter S. Thompson

On the phone
Bookseller: Hello Ripping Yarns.
Customer: Do you have any mohair wool?
Bookseller: Sorry, we're not a yarns shop, we're a bookshop.
Customer: You're called Ripping Yarns.
Bookseller: Yes, that's 'yarns' as in stories.
Customer: Well it's a stupid name.
Bookseller: It's a Monty Python reference.
Customer: So you don't sell wool?
Bookseller: No.
Customer: Hmf. Ridiculous.
Bookseller: ... but we do sell dead parrots.
Customer: What?
Bookseller: Parrots. Dead. Extinct. Expired. Would you like one?
Customer: Erm, no.
Bookseller: Ok, well if you change your mind, do call back. — Jen Campbell

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive. — Catherine Keener

Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly. — Madeleine Albright

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. — Jason Biggs

Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face. — James Corden

I let go and stepped through.
Right into a free fall. — Kiersten White

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough. — Jessica Alba

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. — Janet Flanner

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet. — Jean-Marie Messier

I simply do not distinguish between work and play. — Mary Oliver