Parlaypete Quotes & Sayings

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

And she was *happy*. The kind of happy that smoothed time into still frames. — Victoria Schwab

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity ... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.' — Kevin Barry

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth. — Max Planck

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me. — Brandon Sanderson

Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong. — Dana Spiotta

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting. — Nicolas Winding Refn

The century's most radical vice ... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete. — Paul Johnson

If you know what's right, then you'll do the right thing. If you don't know what's right, then who's to say what you'll do! — Emily Morris

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists. — Thom S. Rainer

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that? — Helen Humphreys

That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be. — Laura Wiess