Outdoing Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing. — Garth Stein

Therefore it is highly necessary that God's children earnestly pray and learn to know this false structure, and depart from it in spirit, and not help to build it up... — Jakob Bohme

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff. — Chris Hardwick

Worldliness is not so much what we do, it's what we want to do. It's an issue of the heart. — Britt Merrick

Most of the Marois Bay scenery is simply made as a setting for the nursing of a wounded heart. The cliffs are a sombre indigo, sinister and forbidding; and even on the finest days the sea has a curious sullen look. You have only to get away from the crowd near the bathing-machines and reach one of these small coves and get your book against a rock and your pipe well alight, and you can simply wallow in misery. I have done it myself. — P.G. Wodehouse

You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. — Neil Gaiman

like a drop of ink in a glass of milk — Thrity Umrigar

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. — Laurent Fabius

So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain ... — John Ashbery

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame. — W.K. Marriott

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong.
The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is. — Norman Vincent Peale

I don't recall telling you I was anything other than a lunatic. — Shay Savage

The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel. — Jacqueline Winspear

Do ya remember the first time you had sex? I do, and boy, was I scared! I was alone! — Rodney Dangerfield