Preapproved Or Prequalified Quotes & Sayings

You'll have to warn them," Mrs. Von Patterson said seriously. "When you go in there. Tell them this town is filled with cougars on the prowl. But that it's definitely okay to feed the wild animals." All three women curled their hands into claws, baring their teeth and hissing at him. "Bad touch," Gus cried, trying to back away as they reached for him. "Bad touch! — T.J. Klune

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it. — Mark Nepo

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby. — William Gibson

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. — Mackenzie Astin

M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense. — Giuseppe Ungaretti

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone. — Madhur Bhandarkar

Ariel gets bad when she's scared. That's when she stings; that's what stings, scared things cornered. — Leah Bobet

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it. — Clayton Christensen

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I'd put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that. — Shelly Crane

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around. — James D. Watson

Take Obama's challenge, in January 2010, to the assembled CEOs at the Forum on Modernizing Government: "If you can book dinner on OpenTable, or a flight on Southwest or United online, then why shouldn't you be able to make an appointment at your local Social Security office the same way? — Aneesh Chopra

Because he was closer to her here than in the office, and less shy than in the car, he could see clearly now what he'd only been able to guess at before: the texture of her skin was what had made him want to pull off her clothes the moment he'd seen her. It was like the surface of a flawless apricot or nectarine; it glowed; it needed to be taken and eaten. A small edge of white lace could be glimpsed just inside the V-neck of her dress, moving with each breath and quivering when she laughed, and that frivolous, unconscious touch of flirtation made him heavy with lust. — Richard Yates

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance. — Evangeline Lilly

WHEN ISHMAEL WOKE, the walls of his trench were seeping water and the dawn was colder than it should have been, the sky an unnatural and ubiquitous pale color that had less to do with the rising of the sun than the passing of the night. — James Lee Burke

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom. — Gil Fronsdal