Page 497 Quotes & Sayings

Fortune confounds the wise,
And when they least expect it turns the dice. — John Dryden

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man. — Fiona Apple

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I'm for gay marriage. I don't want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and I wouldn't vote for anybody that would be against it. But at the same time, why do we have to be good now? Why can't we be villains in movies? — John Waters

I'm going to tell you, what's good for al Qaeda is good for the Democratic Party in this country today. — Rush Limbaugh

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. — Vikram Seth

She wanted to follow. Nothing was real. Didn't he understand? She could not imagine a universe, no matter how many dimensions there were, without a Damon in it. There was no world for her, if there was no Damon. — L.J.Smith

Maybe it was the feeling of certainty that these next days would be full of lasts: the last time I'd laugh with my mother, the last time I'd see her smile, the last time I'd hear her voice. — Penny Reid

Thanks for the information about what we call business. — Dashiell Hammett

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was like one of those dog breeds that needs to work. — Jonathan Kellerman

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor. — Cassandra Clare

Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not. — Marisha Pessl