Polysyllabically Quotes & Sayings

I would like to do some musicals. — Andy Lau

LIBERACE!' Owen would have cried. 'WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE? LIBERACE! KILLED BY WATERMELONS! — John Irving

This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain. — George Orwell

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal — William H Gass

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell. — Lois Crisler

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching ... by and large, chores are a thing of the past. — Billy Graham

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to. — Jane Austen

I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible. — Daphne Du Maurier

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman

My Jewel, I can't give you my whole heart. But the part of it I can give you is the part that isn't scarred and isn't broken. I'll give you the best of me and protect you from the worst for the rest of my life. — Tiffany Reisz

Love, life, meaning...over. — Stephenie Meyer

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all. — McCoy Tyner

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel De Montaigne

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness. — Robert Lanza

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway. — Brian Kernighan

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. — Peter McWilliams