Parsimoniously Define Quotes & Sayings

My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bumstead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bless him. He was always working on some kind of get-rich-quick scheme. This is what my dad was like: I'd say, Hey, Dad, we studied penguins today in school. He'd say, Yeah? I'm a penguin fucker from way back. Dad, I saw a giraffe at the zoo today. Yeah? I'm a giraffe fucker from way back. That's my dad. My dad was a giraffe fucker. — James Ellroy

Yoga is a journey toward your inner core to find your inner bliss. — Debasish Mridha

In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action. — Christopher Dines

The novel is the medium which makes it possible for people of ordinary intelligence to communicate their ideas to the world. — Virginia Woolf

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man. — Jed Rubenfeld

Oh, my little sister. What have you done?" "What?" I asked innocently. "It seems that something of great value to the Scholar has disappeared. At exactly the same time you did. He and the Chancellor have turned the citadelle upside down looking for it. All surreptitiously of course, because whatever was taken apparently isn't a catalogued piece of the royal collection. At least that's the rumor among the servants." I pressed my hands together and grinned. I couldn't hide my glee. Oh, how I wish I had seen the Scholar's face when he opened what he thought was his secret drawer and found it empty. Almost empty, that is. I'd left a little something for him. — Mary E. Pearson

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea. — Sara Shepard

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. — Zhang Xin

I often see through things right to the apparition itself. — Grace Paley

1God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2Therefore we will not fear, — Anonymous

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world. — Cornelia Funke

Nothing kills creativity so well as a big dose of negativity. — Stella Payton

If you think reading is boring, you're doing it wrong. — Anonymous