Notanda Quotes & Sayings

Who is sitting in that empty chair? — Eugene Ormandy

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused ... nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. — Jane Austen

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world. — William Hazlitt

Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills. — Travis Fimmel

I have a tremendous joie de vivre ... alternating with irritability of course. — Joni Mitchell

How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men ... They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky. — Hermann Hesse

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. — Sarah Vowell

Literature is the real life of imaginary people. — Stefanos Livos

Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested. — Emily Giffin

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison

Nameless McBitchypants — Seanan McGuire