Picked Crossword Quotes & Sayings

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. — William Shakespeare

Thank you for your attempt at trying to be thoughtful while stealing shit from me." He picked up a crossword booklet from a chair and tossed it into the trash. "And for filling out my fucking crossword puzzles without me having to ask. I'm not sure how I've ever survived this long without you. — Whitney G.

Every phase and question of life is brought more and more into the limelight. Theatres, cinemas, the radio, and even lectures, assist the process. But they do not, and should not replace reading, because when we are just watching and listening, somebody is taking very good care that we should not stop and think. The danger in this age is not of our remaining ignorant; it is that we should lose the power of thinking for ourselves. Problems are more and more put before us, but, except to crossword puzzles and detective mysteries, do we attempt to find the answers for ourselves? Less and less. The short cut seems ever more and more desirable. But the short cut to knowledge is nearly always the longest way round. There is nothing like knowledge, picked up by or reasoned out for oneself. — John Galsworthy

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends. — Hannibal

You wore your clothes like armor, but in your songs you opened all the way up. You were willing to expose yourself without caring what anyone thought. I wish I was more like that. — Ava Dellaira

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films. — Cecile De France

Him. "We have to go back to the mountain," he said, the words echoing through the room. Lucien's chest constricted — Gena Showalter

Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal. — Meg Rosoff