Otrora In English Quotes & Sayings

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. — Rudyard Kipling

When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks. — Lloyd Dorfman

There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try to figure out what will bring them over to your side. You try lessons that worked with other classes but even that doesn't help and it's because of that chemistry. They know when they have you on the run. They have instincts that detect your frustrations. — Frank McCourt

This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and there are still so many to be written, that I cannot believe that a little alien book such as this, written for the magically-inclined minority, can be considered a trespasser. — Stella Benson

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them. — Audrey Hepburn

Be conscious of who you are it will make you to be conscious of others — Thabiso Monkoe

Holy mackerel, mother of baby fishes, is that a bed? — Elle Casey

When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking. — Ira Glass

Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity. — Nick Cohen

spent a nervous night together. The next morning, the doctors performed a C-section. As they were working, they hit some kind of artery and splashed blood all over the place. I was deathly afraid for my — Chris Kyle

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. — Horace

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward. Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting. — Shelby Foote

I always say I should do more yoga. Or do yoga - more would mean I do some. I've done none. But I always want to do yoga because I'm getting old. Nerves are getting pinched every other day, and I really just gotta get more limber. — Chris Evans

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. — Marshall McLuhan