Northanger Abbey Narrator Quotes & Sayings

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence. — Donald Glover

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. — Tom Stoppard

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was. — Natasha Trethewey

The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other. — Nick Nolte

I have a clever and devious plan. — Steven Brust

Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn't know how to read the signs. — Jan Hellriegel

Just because you're alive doesn't mean you're living. — Val Richards

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship. — Gail Sheehy

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world." — G.H. Hardy

If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first. — Debasish Mridha

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. — John Malkovich

Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each other already, because we met on the river. — Mark Twain

Take care with the words you speak, it's best to keep them sweet..... because you never know when you might have to eat them! — Karen Gibbs