Originalsinners Quotes & Sayings

Also intriguing was all the bowing. The association of height and status did not, of course, faze him. If anything, it made the Japanese seem noble. But where were the ones who made themselves big? That was the question. With so many people bowing down, it seemed to Majnoun like a competition amongst the low to see who could be lowest. In which case, discretion was strength, a paradox that Majnoun found almost as compelling as the film's relative absence of dogs. — Andre Alexis

I felt that, if we could avoid seeing each other for long enough, any questions of sentiment - so often deprecated by Barbara herself - could be allowed quietly to subside, and take their place in those niches of memory especially reserved for abortive emotional entanglements of that particular kind. — Anthony Powell

There is no better way to influence children than being their role model. — Eraldo Banovac

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled. — Christian Lacroix

Did you finish yours, Kota?"
"Working on it now, Actually."
"How's it going?"
He sat up, turning in his chair and holding up his notebook. "I don't know. What rhymes with formaldehyde?"
My eyes widened. Gabriel laughed, rubbing his fingers against his forehead. "Dude, what kind of poem are you writing?"
Kota blinked at us. "It's about a doctor."
"Does the doctor fall in love?" Gabriel asked.
"No."
"Does someone die?"
"Not in the story, technically."
"What does he do?"
"He performs an autopsy. — C.L.Stone

E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender. — Chris Alexander

No matter where you go, no matter how far you run, you can't run away from yourself. — Eric Walters

In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown. — Stephen Thompson

I didn't have children, but I never wanted children. — Iris Apfel

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it. — Helena Bonham Carter

Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved - — Pearl S. Buck

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all. — William James

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions. — Ishmael Reed

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. — Isaac Barrow