Nominates Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind. — Joshua Ferris

Winning is like sex, the more you do it, the more you like it. — Felix Sabates

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' ... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.' — Benedict Cumberbatch

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. — Thomas Merton

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life]. — Brian Evenson

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale. — Orson Scott Card

Everyone takes the picture of the kid with the birthday cake on his face," he said once. "Wait for the unexpected. That's the magic. — Corrine Jackson

Confident that cast-iron walls separate our nature and situation from theirs, comfortable in the well-broken-in saddle of our high horse, we have exchanged our capacity to be tolerant for detachment and derision.
It is the tragedian's task, then, to force us to confront an almost unbearable truth: every folly or myopia of which any human being in history has been guilty may be traced back to some aspect of our collective nature. Because we each bear within ourselves the whole of the human condition, in its worst and best aspects, any one of us might be capable of doing anything at all, or nothing, under the right - or rather the most horribly wrong - conditions. — Alain De Botton

in the grocery store. Our obedience to God is evidence — Stormie O'martian

It's the almost that haunts me. Even now. — Amy Matayo

And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now — Virginia Woolf

You lack faith in others and yourself if you don't believe you can affect them with your love. — Sandra Leesmith

I'm not sure what I'm going to do."
Lexi gasped. "You mean ... "
"Look, I don't know what to do yet. I just knew that's what you wanted," he saying eyeing her mussed appearance.
"That's not what I wanted."
"If it wasn't, you wouldn't have let me do it," he told her simply.
"I wanted answers."
"And I don't have any. — K.A. Linde

My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer. — Marshall Curry