Percentage Calculater Quotes & Sayings

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture - the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us - has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you. — Edward Hirsch

Of course you're dying. We're all dying. Where the devil else do you think you're heading? — Joseph Heller

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together. — Lynne Rae Perkins

I realize now that no simple, single-factor theory of depression will ever work. Depression is partly in our genes, partly in our childhood experience, partly in our way of thinking, partly in our brains, partly in our ways of handling emotions. It affects our whole being. — Richard O'Connor

Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal. — Ginnifer Goodwin

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it. — Rainbow Rowell

Is driving me crazy your idea of seduction? — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor. — Steve Buscemi

The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting. — Robin D. Laws

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. — Erno Rubik

Staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond "awesome" and "sucks," which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough . . . — Thomas Pynchon

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. — Herman Melville

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. — John Ruskin

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s. — John Walters