Phrasebooks Quotes & Sayings

A rich man, was one who spent a million. — Brian McGreevy

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained. — Robbie Coltrane

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it. — Henry Ford

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. — Mollie Marti

Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you. — Cormac McCarthy

Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas
to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation. — William J. Clinton

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say. — Mark Twain

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. — Ambrose Bierce

Elementary, my dear Watson."
"That's a misquotation, by the way," I countered without thinking. Which might've made more of an impact if I'd stopped grinning like a cretin.
"See? Ten minutes and you already know I read Sherlock Holmes. Just imagine what you could discover if we went out on a real date. — Ramona Wray

If something happens to me, what would it take to get you to watch over her?" Chase wiped sweat from his brow. "To make sure she gets off the island alive?"
"More than you can give. Such as a firstborn to go with my others. Matching set and all. — Kresley Cole

Where you learn things, really, is watching it in front of an audience. — Sheldon Harnick