Overwater Quotes & Sayings

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke. — David Simon

I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. I cannot hold on to anything that's her. — David Levithan

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards. — L.M. Montgomery

I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache. — Jean Carroll

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Annie Besant

She sang in harmony. Not, of course, with her reflection in the glass, because that kind of heroine will sooner or later end up singing a duet with Mr. Bluebird and other forest creatures and then there's nothing for it but a flamethrower. — Terry Pratchett

Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate. — Rupert Brooke

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. — Joshua Ferris

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato. — Nigel Slater