Phocomelus Quotes & Sayings

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I think the person who said that to me — Lee Child

I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it. — Katharine McPhee

One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party, said Rabbi Loew. — Deborah Harkness

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse. — William Gurnall

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. — William Shakespeare

There's the feather-bed element here, brother, - ach! and not only that! There's an attraction here - here you have the end of the world, an anchorage, a quiet haven, the navel of the earth, the three fishes that are the foundation of the world, the essence of pancakes, of savoury fish-pies, of the evening samovar, of soft sighs and warm shawls, and hot stoves to sleep on - as snug as though you were dead, and yet you're alive - the advantages of both at once! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded. — Anita Brookner

His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he said only about certain things. — Pam Houston

Money is a burden, a burden most keenly felt by the poor. — Eleanor Catton

Wait -- you kissed a girl you didn't like, tried to make me jealous, and almost got kicked out of school -- and you still didn't learn how to dance?' She looked at the ceiling. 'Why are boys so stupid? — Varian Johnson

Phocomelus Hoppy Harrington generally wheeled up to Modern TV Sales & Service about eleven each morning. He generally glided into the shop, stopping his cart by the counter, and if Jim Fergesson was around he asked to be allowed to go downstairs to watch the two TV repairmen at work. However, if Fergesson was not around, Hoppy gave up and after a while wheeled off, because he knew that the salesmen would not let him go downstairs;' they merely ribbed him, gave him the run-around. He did not mind. Or at least as far as Stuart McConchie could tell, he did not mind. — Philip K. Dick

And just getting into bed with somebody wasn't the magic solution, because people could hide their terrors in pure technique - depersonalizing so completely the body embraced that they felt nothing at all. — Paul Monette