Plaits Braids Quotes & Sayings

They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation. — Liane Moriarty

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes. — Emo Philips

I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo. — Elias Koteas

After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes, our impoverished lovemaking. Her soul had remained over there, among the gigantic, poisonous flowers. She missed the mystery of old temples and the ardor of a sky blazing with fever, sensuality and death. The better to relive all these magnificent, raging memories, she became a recluse, spending entire days lying about on tiger skins, playing with those pretty Nepalese knives 'which dissipate one's dreams'. — Octave Mirbeau

They had both been raised in complete isolation from the everyday world, with their own set of values and disciplines, not because they had been chosen to be different but because they had been born that way. Their calling was random, genetic - unfair. — Karen Traviss

I was born anew, owner of my own darkness. — Pablo Neruda

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person. — Ben Bernanke

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?' — Donald Byrd

No one who lives in error is free. — Euripides

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this. — Alexis Hall