Occassion Quotes & Sayings

Great moments are born great oppurtunity — Nikola Tesla

I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do. — Joan Rivers

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. — Lionel Shriver

Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but you do not listen. For a literary man, Watson - and note that I do not comment on the merit of your latest account of my little problems - for a man with the pretenses of being a writer, you are singularly unobservant. Honestly, sometimes I am close to despair. — Edward B. Hanna

Rise to the occassion which is life! — Virginia Euwer Wolff

His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion. — Kristin Cashore

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor", said I, but quietly as the occassion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public". — William Golding

Oh, the Bloodwitch named Aeduan was no longer bored. No longer bored at all. And now he had work to do. — Susan Dennard

Grumble weakens the spirit.
Despair is counterproductive.
Both are true toxicants in life. — Toba Beta

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts ... — Dodie Smith

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"What were you going to do if he'd refused ?"
Jaenelle looked at him and smiled.
Butterflies filled his stomach and tickled unmercifully before turning into heavy, sinking stones.
"Well," his darling said, "you have a wonderful deep voice too. So if Papa refused, I was going to ask you."
Saetan walked into the sitting room where he'd asked Geoffrey and Draca, the Keep's Seneschal, to meet him.
"My friends, this bottle of wine arrived this evening, compliments of Prince Sadi. Since it came from the wine cellar at the Hall, I can assure you it is a very fine vintage, one best enjoyed when shared."
He called in three glasses and opened the wine.
Draca said nothing until he handed her a glass. "What iss the occassion ?"
Saetan grinned. "My son has just realized how much his father loves him. — Anne Bishop

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions — Brad Stevens

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, — George R R Martin

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give.
For we that live to please must please to live. — Samuel Johnson

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole) — Elizabeth Gaskell

Tell me you don't feel what I feel."
"That doesn't matter." She swallowed hard.
"It does to me." I brush my lips against hers. — Christine Fonseca

Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy as - "
"Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca. — MaryJanice Davidson

On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom. — Ned Sublette

Children give terrible gifts because they are poor. — Rob Delaney