Palgrave Study Quotes & Sayings

Luck, be a lady tonight. — Frank Loesser

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool. — P. J. O'Rourke

In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females. — Bell Hooks

But unvented - ahh! One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up, one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground. I very much doubt if anything is really new when one works in the prehistoric medium of wool with needles. The products of science and technology may be new, and some of them are quite horrid, but knitting? In knitting there are ancient possibilities; the earth is enriched with the dust of the millions of knitters who have held wool and needles since the beginning of sheep. Seamless sweaters and one-row buttonholes; knitted hems and phoney seams - it is unthinkable that these have, in mankind's history, remained undiscovered and unknitted. One likes to believe that there is memory in the fingers; memory undeveloped, but still alive. — Elizabeth Zimmermann

But they don't like the sun: it makes their legs wobble and their heads giddy. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too. — Lea Michele

Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me. — A&E Kirk

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies! — Butterfly McQueen