Portlandia Women's Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin. Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin. Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us. We are its servants. — Joel Beeke

In her mind danced the image of a shark with Thomas Ivan's white, practiced smile.
Deliberately, Aidan teased her with the image until she was forced to laugh. — Christine Feehan

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd. — Donald Trump

Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them. — Tony Randall

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. — Leo Durocher

No ornament can make a person look beautiful if the person has a bad heart! A good heart is the finest ornament, the best makeup, the best cloth, the best jewel, the best lipstick and the best earring! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. — Michel De Montaigne

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. — Gerald F. Lieberman

I want out of this place.
With no reminders.
It stings -
sulphur tears
in cinnamon rain. — Emma Cameron

It just shows that you may make a great stir in the world and yet sadly fail to impress the members of your own family. — W. Somerset Maugham

Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain. Finally, nostalgia asks so little of us, just to be noticed and revisited; — Carrie Brownstein

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her. — Bruno Mars

That depends. To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only. — George Eliot