Overflows Syn Quotes & Sayings

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds. — Ernest Hemingway,

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for, — Hugh Jackman

I'll guard her with my life, little brother," Trent said, tugging on my arm. "Now go kick this guy's ass and let's get out of here. — Jamie McGuire

My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice. — Jillian Medoff

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. — Chuck Lorre

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not — Anzia Yezierska

I'm thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite. — Anthony Doerr

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable. — Jack Vance

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions. — Tony Blair

A brand is the unique story that consumers recall when they think of you. This story associates your product with their personal stories, a particular personality, what you promise to solve, and your position relative to your competitors. Your brand is represented by your visual symbols and feeds from multiple conversations where you must participate strategically. — Laura Busche

The vamps had plans to make for the trip? Well, so did she. Backups for when their plans went to hell and her plans were all they had left. — D.B. Reynolds

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up. — Flannery O'Connor

State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale. — Eugene Fama

He nodded to her right forearm, not trusting himself to speak. His gloves lay on the other side of the basin, black against the gold-veined marble. They looked like dead animals. He focused on the shears, cold metal in his hands, nothing like skin. He could not do this if his hands were shaking. I can best this, he told himself. — Leigh Bardugo