Old School Courting Quotes & Sayings

If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself. — Chris Raschka

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject — Thomas Mann

It has a quality other countries call cultural imperialism, which, we have found, means a tasty culture that other peoples readily enjoy, an infective culture, if you will, from which ideas and usages spread quickly. — Sheri S. Tepper

It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality. — Joe Schaefer

No wife ever cleared a man's character, not without a great deal of trouble on the lower decks. So — Gail Carriger

History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world. — Judith Geary

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire. — Sarah Vowell

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. — Prince Philip

There are clues in the script ... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"' ... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia. — David Suchet

It's been a painful lesson, but I feel stronger knowing the truth. — Lisa Desrochers

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays. — Adam Carolla

Who knows what lies in the hearts of men? And more importantly, who cares so long as they open our jars and kill spiders? — Candace Vianna