Oneascent Quotes & Sayings

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one. — Jerome K. Jerome

Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal. — Lena Dunham

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years. — Vince Cable

My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me. — Lucy Deakins

She gazed out across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork and reasoned like this: writing was only the words that people said, squeezed between layers of paper until they were fossilized (fossils were well known on the Discworld, great spiraled shells and badly constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn't really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene). And the words people said were just shadow of real things. But some things were too big to be really trapped in words, and even the words were too powerful to be completely tamed by writing. — Terry Pratchett

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. — John Oates

He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away. — Jack London

they make a desert and call it peace'. — Yuval Noah Harari

Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend. — Anita Diamant

When I was writing my biography of LeBon," Bob Nye told me, "he seemed to me the biggest asshole in the whole of creation. — Jon Ronson

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner. — Ann Wigmore

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air. — Beatrice Wood