Palooka Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Forty-five minutes later, Benedict was slouching in his chair, his eyes glazed. Every now and then he had to stop and make sure his mouth wasn't hanging open.
His mother's conversation was that boring.
The young lady she had wanted to discuss with him had actually turned out to be seven young ladies, each of which she assured him was better than the last.
Benedict thought he might go mad. Right here in his mother's sitting room he was going to go stark, raving mad. He'd suddenly pop out of his chair, fall to the floor in a frenzy his arms and legs waving, mouth frothing-
"Benedict, are you even listening to me?"
He looked up and blinked. Damn. Now he would have to focus on his mother's list of possible brides. The prospect of losing his sanity had been infinitely more appealing. — Julia Quinn

The worst sin is to bore. — Oliver Wilde

Incredible that the best route to winning friends
is not necessarily kindness or flattery,
but letting them know you won't
tolerate their bullshit. — Sarah Miller

What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind. — Robert Grudin

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away. — Ashley Walters

I would never be on a reality show. — Busy Philipps

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation. — Yuri Gagarin

Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond energy. — Dennis Vickers

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl ... or boy. — Adam Sandler