Philmore Anderson Quotes & Sayings

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster. — Tony Kaye

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? — Jerry Spinelli

The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time. — Jennifer Niven

When I was young and miserable and pretty
And poor, I'd wish
What all girls wish: to have a husband,
A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish
Is womanish:
That the boy putting groceries in my car
See me. — Randall Jarrell

This is what pain feels like when it's happening now and I beg my body to know this difference. It won't listen to me. — Courtney Summers

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years. — Emily St. John Mandel

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light. — Mary Stewart

He saw during the Weimar Republic that the left intelligentsia hated capitalism, and hence social democracy as well, far too much to think that Nazism could be worse. — Clive James

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. — Judi Dench

What kind of work do you do," I asked.
"Promise you won't laugh?"
"Promise."
"I'm a proctologist."
I couldn't help it. I laughed a little. "An ass doctor? — Buffy Andrews

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living. — Keira Knightley

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine. — Ned Vizzini

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before. — Prince Philip