Nucase Quotes & Sayings

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairy-tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old monkeys with something depressing on their minds. — Charles Dickens

I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my ... transition. — Jennifer Hudson

It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is. — Patricia Briggs

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed. — Aristotle.

Every achievement starts from a dream. So let's dream! — Leyla Atke

A man should not grieve overmuch, for that is a complaint against God. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you. — James Salter

I was never a coward," he says irritably, struggling out of my grasp. "I was just sensible. — James Patterson

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time. — Patti Smith

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you. — Matthew Kahn

He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire. — Daniel Alarcon

No one likes crying, but tears water our souls. — Xinran

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable
advantage in all instances. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart. — Fabiola Gianotti