Noncoms Crossword Quotes & Sayings

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. — Alan Bradley

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom. — Alice Neel

Does anyone in the UFC actually follow the rules? — Jordan Burroughs

Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs. Our entire lives explained in one French novel. — Victor Hugo

You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box! — Fredrik Backman

Forget movies - I'd rather choose books! — Disha

Allow the child to be authentic, to move, to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are. — Magda Gerber

I'm not most people. I have no patience for those who can't execute a plan with elegance. — David Iserson

The point is to keep trying new things, meeting new people, visiting new places. Once you settle into a rut, no matter how fun that rut may seem, you stagnate. You might as well be dead. — Lenore Appelhans

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. — Dennis Prager

He tossed the deck to David. 'You get first deal.'
'I've got one hand.'
'Right, then. Deal those cards, Max, and let's have ourselves a game. — Henry H. Neff

A man of adequate vitality and zest will surmount all misfortunes by the emergence after each blow of an interest in life and the world which cannot be narrowed down so much as to make one loss fatal. To be defeated by one loss or even by several is not something to be admired as a proof of sensibility, but something to be deplored as a failure in vitality. All our affections are at the mercy of death, which may strike down those whom we love at any moment. It is therefore necessary that our lives should not have that narrow intensity which puts the whole meaning and purpose of our life at the mercy of accident. — Betrand Russell

If you were to draw a map of the two of them, of where they started out and where they would both end up, the lines would be shooting away from each other like magnets spun around on their poles. And it occurred to Owen that there was something deeply flawed about this, that there should be circles or angels or turns, anything that might make it possible for the two lines to meet again. Instead, they were both headed in the exact opposite directions. The map was as good as a door swinging shut. And the geography of the thing- the geography of them- was completely and hopelessly wrong. — Jennifer E. Smith