Pargulski John Quotes & Sayings

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon! — Fergie

The problem with all men, and werewolves in particular, was their odd perspective. Sean viewed the gash across his ribs as a scratch. I viewed it as an open wound made by a monomolecular blade able to cut through the werewolf armor and contaminate his body with extraterrestrial microorganisms and possibly poison. We agreed to meet somewhere in the middle. He allowed me to sterilize and seal the wound, and I promised to stop threatening to restrain him. — Ilona Andrews

Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow. — Yvonne Pierre

Oh, Beli; not so rashly, not so rashly: What did you know about states or diasporas? What did you know about Nueba Yol or unheated 'old law' tenements or children whose self-hate short-circuited their minds? What did you know, madame, about immigration? Don't laugh, mi negrita, for your world is about to be changed. Utterly. Yes: a terrible beauty is etc., etc. Take it from me. You laugh because you've been ransacked to the limit of your soul, because your lover betrayed you almost unto death, because your first son was never born. You laugh because you have no front teeth and you've sworn never to smile again. — Junot Diaz

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. — Alexander Pope

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals

There's no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be had. — Charles Spurgeon

AS WE DRIVE BACK into Portland, — E.L. James

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart. — Erma Bombeck

You know, it's a long world. — Lawrence Welk

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? — Veronica Roth

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded. — Flann O'Brien

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project. — Peggy Guggenheim

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark. — Simone Schwarz-Bart

False humility is better than no humility at all. — Paul Krassner