Podrido Wordreference Quotes & Sayings

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts. — W. H. Auden

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead. — Erich Von Stroheim

The reason it's difficult to learn something new is that it will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be. — Seth Godin

I believe that Lady Gaga is like a carnival ride. From a distance she looks fun, but up close, you don't wanna climb on that. — Bill Engvall

I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something. — Catherine Bell

What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Sure, I'm dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself. — Sylvia Plath

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure. — Abbie Cornish

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. — Jon Meacham

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually. — Michael Moore

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

The most valuable person is the one who cherishes the value in others. — Ron Kaufman