Objectionable Crossword Quotes & Sayings

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

This was perfect. I was about a ten on the poison scale. If he needed venom, I could inject it directly into his neck. — Tarryn Fisher

The civilization of ancient Greece was nurtured within city walls. In fact, all the modern civilizations have their cradles of brick and mortar.
These walls leave their mark deep in the minds of men. They set up a principle of "divide and rule" in our mental outlook, which begets in us a habit of securing all our conquests by fortifying them and separating them from one another. We divide nation and nation, knowledge and knowledge, man and nature. It breeds in us a strong suspicion of whatever is beyond the barriers we have built, and everything has to fight hard for its entrance into our recognition. — Rabindranath Tagore

I was doing someones hair the day I first saw my guitar ... a guy was walking down the street with it, and knew that guitar was mine (a 1953 weathered Fender Telecaster) .. I said I'll get you the most beautiful guitar you've ever seen and I'll trade you straight across ... I found him a purple Telecaster and said here's your guitar ... that was it, it was like he knew that guitar belonged to me ... — Roy Buchanan

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful. — Andrew Clements

The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness. — K.M. Soehnlein

The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang. — Paul Bowles

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't think ... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. — Lewis Carroll

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today. — Jeane Dixon

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons ... that's the greatest thing. — Marcus Allen