Nourishin Quotes & Sayings

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women. — Mark Twain

It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones. — Ernest Hemingway,

What matters is the imaginative truth. — Edna O'Brien

Yes, sir, but the Librarian likes bananas, sir."
"Very nourishin' fruit, Mr Stibbons."
"Yes, sir. Although, funnily enough it's not actually a fruit, sir."
"Really?"
"Yes, sir. Botanically, it's a type of fish, sir. According to my theory it's cladistically associated with the Krullian pipefish, sir, which of course is also yellow and goes around in bunches or shoals."
"And lives in trees?"
"Well, not usually, sir. The banana is obviously exploiting a new niche."
"Good heavens, really? It's a funny thing, but I've never much liked bananas and I've always been a bit suspicious of fish, too. That'd explain it. — Terry Pratchett

Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant. — John Roberts

Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home. — David Levithan

When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel. — Robert Galbraith

Pursue your divine-dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance. — Tobias Smollett

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another. — Sydney J. Harris

Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done? — Terry Pratchett

A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals. — Winona Ryder

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen

As of now, Virat Kohli is the greatest batsman of the world — Sourav Ganguly

An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain. — Kathleen Norris

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana