Preened Def Quotes & Sayings

Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover. — Joe Abercrombie

Prior to the Industrial Age and during the long Agri-cultural Age life was a matter of survival and the concept of 'happiness' was superfluous, but with the industrial age came 'leisure time' and thus happiness was something one had 'time' to pursue".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color. — Christine Pelosi

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work. — Ralph Fiennes

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. — Jonathan Davis

People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves. — Jimmy Carter

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs. — Denise Fleming

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more. — Derek Jeter

And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York. — Alison Pill

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. — Agatha Christie

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it. Stretch yourself out in the hammock of grace. — Max Lucado

You know," he says, "for someone who doesn't like touching people, you keep finding ways to put your hands on me. — Victoria Schwab

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here. — Chris Rock

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing ... — Tim Burton

My movies are not about being, but becoming. — Sofia Coppola