Nowdays Quotes & Sayings

The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind. — Daniel J. Rice

Our Lord Jesus was not above letting folk minister to Him, for he knew how happy it makes one to do aught for another. It's the happiest work in earth. — Elizabeth Gaskell

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into. — Alexander Ludwig

The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle ... If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used. — Canvass White

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists. — Max Beerbohm

Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me people nowdays don't have much compassion for others and think they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps which is pretty hard to do if you don't have any boots. The — Ruth Butler

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old. — Al Jourgensen

Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall's discount- appliance emporium. — Colson Whitehead

On the Television Show The X-Files So, the woman and the dopey-looking guy screw, and then they look for aliens - or they just screw and sometimes aliens follow them? — Justin Halpern

German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you. — G.K. Chesterton

And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic ... I have the feeling that some of the young people I've met they think already, before they start playing, they think already about the product: how can we sell it ... maybe my view is really very old fashioned nowadays, but I think art at any times needs time for development and this fast food bullshit is not working ... younger guys: take your time, music is really a thing of long terms, actually it's a lifelong thing to learn and to develop your own stuff. — Peter Brotzmann

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation. — Hyman Rickover

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley — Sybil G. Brinton

With Torin stretched over her, his weight pinning her down, his heat and scent surrounding her, she was utterly consumed with pleasure. It saturated her bones, submerged her mind, tickled her every cell. She was alive with decadent sensation. — Gena Showalter

The gift of the moment is a wonderful bliss. — Lailah Gifty Akita

...the predominant odors of sauerkraut and schnitzel that had always made me feel a part of my mother's life, the part before she met my father and the brackets of disappointment that marked each side of her mouth had become permanent. — Beatriz Williams