Prattish Quotes & Sayings

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live! — Sophia Loren

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready. — E.F. Schumacher

I don't want to be my own boss. I want to be my own colleague. — Demetri Martin

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.' — Benjamin Franklin

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion. — Dorothea Dix

I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture. — Sally Kohn

The gull sees farthest who flies highest — Richard Bach

When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta." — Barbara De Angelis

Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it. — Felix Alba-Juez

Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The most sophisticated things in the world are precisely those within the reach of everyone. — Paulo Coelho