Prided Myself Means Quotes & Sayings

We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl! — Roald Dahl

I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now. — Karen Salmansohn

Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ. — Neem Karoli Baba

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage. — Cass Sunstein

That had been an odd meeting, but reassuring. She need no longer fear the earl-at lest not for his hostility to her father. What danger he might be to her heart was another matter entirely. — Eve Edwards

Also, what if Adam and Ever were merely symbols of companionship? And Eve, different from him, woman instead of man, was simply a tool by which God noted that companionship was something you got from a person outside yourself? What if that's all it was? And why not? — Chinelo Okparanta

But I did - I did want to write a book, and I knew what the first line would be: "Maybe I shouldn't have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but he'll never call me anyway. No one will ever call me again." And this was based on a true thing. See, the doctor that pumped my stomach sent me flowers. With a note that read: "I can tell that you are a very warm and sensitive person." All that from the contents of my stomach! I was tempted to marry him so I could tell people how we met. — Carrie Fisher

The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul. — Minnie Maddern Fiske

I knew a guy once. He did weight training at the Muscle Farm, years back. He said that the Dakota Indians, the young men climb up the mountain, then form death-defying human chains off the heads, just so that the guy at the end of the chain can piss on the president's nose." Wednesday guffawed. "Oh, fine! Very fine! Is any specific president the particular butt of their ire?" Shadow shrugged. "He never said. — Neil Gaiman

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice. — Penn Jillette

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow. — Edward Kasner