Phenotypes Examples Quotes & Sayings

The first book I ever read that made me cry. I was seven and hadn't realized books could do that. Just finish you like that. I was sitting in a beanbag chair in the school library when the book ended, weeping, looking at all the books on the shelves all around me, and I decided then and there that I never wanted to be anywhere else. — Mary Ann Rivers

There was no back home any more, not in the essential way, and that was part of Paris too. Why we couldn't stop drinking or talking or kissing the wrong people no matter what it ruined. Some of us had looked into the faces of the dead and tried not to remember anything in particular. Ernest was one of these. He often said he'd died in the war, just for a moment; that his soul had left his body like a silk handkerchief, slipping out and levitating over his chest. It had returned without being called back, and I often wondered if writing for him was a way of knowing his soul was there after all, back in its place. Of saying to himself, if not to anyone else, that he had seen what he'd seen and felt those terrible things and lived anyway. That he had died but wasn't dead any more. — Paula McLain

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey. — H.L. Mencken

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster. — Clive Barker

Who are you after?"
"The snarky asshole one."
"Could you be a little more specific."
"The one who has a staff and throws their toys out of the pram that one."
"Ooh."
"Yeah. — Charon Lloyd-Roberts

A lot of people, they want you to be a one-hit wonder. — Swae Lee

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines. — Taylor Hackford

Laughter is an important part of healthy living. — Matthew Moy