Proverbially Speaking Quotes & Sayings

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool. — Rachel Nichols

To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive. — Richard Ashcroft

We interrogate the world by making. — Bill Bendyshe Burnett

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. — James Madison

An example of this is, when the simple propositions are connected by the particle or; as, either A is B or C is D; or by the particle if; as, A is B if C is D. In the former case, the proposition is called disjunctive, in the latter, conditional: the name hypothetical was originally common to both. — John Stuart Mill

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. — Joyce Carol Oates

I've never liked rehearsing too much. — J Mascis

There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them. — Mackenzie Phillips