Parentscards Quotes & Sayings

Will you marry me?, I let my soul go ... to go meet hers, through her eyes. — Prashant Chopra

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"
that planted too stimulating an image
but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh. — Bill Bryson

If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens. — Chris Baty

Sometimes she woke up speaking his name.
Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel as if she were drowning. — Jojo Moyes

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it? — Jeff Ross

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow. — Eddie Murphy

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock'd with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn'd with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars? — Christiaan Huygens

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. — Stephen Hawking