Preprepared Quotes & Sayings

As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American troops and delivered it in such a way that his condescension prompted more division than unity. — Jean Edward Smith

You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form ... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours. — Clara Schumann

In between trash and treasure. — Raditya Dika

I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man. — Annie Lennox

The most beautiful country in the world, the bloke said a few times, but I knew that lots of people tell themselves things like that but there is no country that is the most beautiful country. — Catherine Lacey

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. — Toni Cade Bambara

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent. — Luke Evans

The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage. — David Toop

I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids. — Stephen Dorff

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death! — John Betjeman

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough. — Aprilynne Pike

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges. — Jack LaLanne

How much damage will have been done before we act? — John McCain

his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad. — Herman Melville

Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation.
I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some years. I am not the same young girl they knew in high school. What they cannot know, what I am just realizing myself, is that I am not even the same person I was two years ago. — Mary Potter Kenyon

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't. — Don Mattingly