Preempts Def Quotes & Sayings

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking. — Kazuo Ishiguro

She had yet to actually call him by his real name. The psychologist in him had all kinds of theories as to why. The man in him wanted to hear her say it. Just once. — Kelly Moran

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A QUESTION OF SALARY Santa was filling up an application form for a job. He was not sure as to what to put in the column 'Salary Expected'. After much thought he wrote : 'Yes, please. — Khushwant Singh

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. — Remy De Gourmont

Live in a perpetual great astonishment. — Theodore Roethke

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant. — Martin Cruz Smith

Alexander was suffocating under the weight of his love. — Paullina Simons

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times. — Jim Leach

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work. — Stanley Kunitz

Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction. — Veena Sud