Moreorless Quotes & Sayings

Kissing making out on the ground Bali Hai Bali Hai Bali Hai! — Steven Pasquale

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? — William Shakespeare

A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret. — Charles Kingsley

Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009. — Rachel Sklar

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier. — Tom Guiry

The one-legged never stumble. — Ernest Bramah

Sweetheart." He let out a serrated breath. "You tempt me just by being in the same room with me. — Lisa Kleypas

In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient. — Neal Stephenson

The Party knows more about us than we know ourselves,' the woman replied. — John Le Carre

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots. — Gunter Grass

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard. — Robert Martensen

Felicia had never seen such beads before, neither of glass nor of metal, not of jade either, she thought; of stone or baked clay, rather, opaque, in mysteriously tender and quenched colors: orange ocher, golden brown, some touched with black; so subdued of hue - melancholy almost, as if there was something of autumn in that little box woven from leaves, something of passing and dying. — Maria Dermout

I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not. — Erin Morgenstern