Plemenitba Quotes & Sayings

I'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. — Matt Damon

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long. — Israelmore Ayivor

In fact,' said Wonse, trying to keep the trembling out of his voice, 'before too long, if someone comes along and tells them that a dragon king is a bad idea, they'll kill him themselves. — Terry Pratchett

I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, however well-meaning, would make me possessive, angry again. She was always making things personal, seeing only their relationship to her rather than what was complex about them. — Olivia Sudjic

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me. — Steve Albini

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end. — Abdu'l- Baha

I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found. — Nancy Farmer

The world wants you to find extraordinary women threatening. Undo that training. When you feel threatened, it's a great sign that you have just found an ally who will bring you new energy and insight and together you will rise. — Rachel Rosenfelt

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. — John Grisham

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you. — Orson Scott Card

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself ... — Mary Kingsley

If a queen comes to America, crowds fill the station squares, and attendant British journalists rejoice, 'You see: the American Cousins are as respectful to Royalty as we are.'
But the Americans have read of queens since babyhood. they want to see one queen, once, and if another came to town next week, with twice as handsome a crown, she would not draw more than two small boys and an Anglophile.
Americans want to see one movie star, one giraffe, one jet plance, one murder, but only one. They run up a skyscraper or the fame of generals and evangelists and playwrights in one week and tear them all down in an hour, and the mark of excellence everywhere is 'under new management'. — Sinclair Lewis

By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast! — Diana Wynne Jones

If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom
whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal! — William Makepeace Thackeray

The Holy Spirit speaks sacred words. — Lailah Gifty Akita