Nouns 1st Quotes & Sayings

I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook. Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, — Robert Louis Stevenson

Maybe that's what real friendship is
getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them. — Libba Bray

I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it? — Lisa Samson

If you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes. — Gloria Steinem

As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So I wasn't inclined to take a biology course. But my father insisted, and maybe what he had in mind was that, if there were no jobs in physics, I would end up being a doctor. — James Rothman

open me carefully — Emily Dickinson

Business is all about people, Miss Steele, and I'm very good at judging people. I know how they tick, what makes them flourish, what doesn't, what inspires them, and how to incentivize them. I employ an exceptional team, and I reward them well. — E.L. James

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed. — Umar

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself. — Han Fei

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty

The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority. — Clarence Thomas