Programmatically Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Mohammed ignored the abuse. What did Ahmed know? It had been years since anyone had studied music in Paris or Seville on a scholarship paid for by the country's oil profits. The only knowledge people mastered these days was how to steal copper wire and load a gun. Mohammed felt like a relic from a lost civilization, buried in the muck of the Tigris. Sassanid, Seleucid, Sumerian. Achaemenid, Assyrian, Akkadian. He sometimes thought he was the only one who remembered. For what it was worth, he could sing the ancient songs of the pearl divers. — Leslie Cockburn

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide. — Jennifer Niven

He had only just made the Elysian deadline; hanging onto the typescript until the last moment in case there was something still to be done; two sentences turned into one, one sentence broken into two, the substitution of a slightly resistant adjective to engender a moment's reflection, in short, the joys of editing, all carried out without forgetting the art that disguises art. — Edward St. Aubyn

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science. — Frank Herbert

For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win. — Eric Ludy

I like you, but not too much. I don't want to like anybody too much. — Sylvia Plath

Uncanny situations; reasons to ponder for action! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent. — Matthew Rhys

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. "You are old, Father."
"Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe. — Mary-Jean Harris

Howard!' she hollered as the machines pulled her under. 'Howard!' At least she didn't remember my name, either. — Dexter Palmer