Obligatory Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do. — William Shatner

I hate being ignored. — Amanda Palmer

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. — Roy L. Smith

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family. — Magdi Yacoub

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space. — Alberto Manguel

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense. — Robert Anton Wilson

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost. — Stanley Tucci

Seen as paving the way for an age of innovation. — Edmund S. Phelps

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love. — Wally Lamb

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. — John Sergeant Wise

He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle. — Marion Chesney

I held my hand out. "Give me a grenade."
Andrea pulled open her backpack and slid a grenade into my palm. "Wait until they start shooting the Jeep. Boom comes first, shrapnel flies second. Count to ten before you run in there. And don't blow the device up."
"Yes, Mother. It's not my first time."
"That's the thanks I get for trying to keep you alive, Your Highness. — Ilona Andrews

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. — Norman MacCaig

I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff. — Schoolboy Q

All this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his hand in her sleep. He felt an ineffable love for her. Her sleep must have been very light at the moment because she opened her eyes and gazed up at him questioningly.
"What are you looking at?" she asked.
He knew that instead of waking her he should lull her back to sleep, so he tried to come up with an answer that would plant the image of a new dream in her mind.
"I'm looking at the stars," he said.
"Don't say you're looking at the stars. That's a lie. You're looking down."
"That's because we're on an airplane. The stars are below us."
"Oh, in an airplane," said Tereza, squeezing his hand even tighter and falling asleep again. And Tomas knew that Tereza was looking out of the round window of an airplane flying high above the stars. — Milan Kundera