Progressively Smooth Quotes & Sayings

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. — Richard Roeper

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. — Barry McGee

Blackthorn? Please. Shut. Up. I grab the collar of his jacket and pull him into me, answering every last protest with a kiss- a real one, deep and intentional. — Sarah Ockler

The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game. It's highly entertaining and it's something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit. — Brett Finch

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that. — Taylor Swift

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread. — Bashar Al-Assad

Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable. — Anne Lamott

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. — James Nasmyth

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable. — Frank Dane

So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that ... transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary ... — Francine Prose

Zero is my spot in this world. And it's so appropriate to be nothing, and not all in a negative way, either. I like being nothing. — C.D. Reiss

Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House. — Dan Webster