Providently Def Quotes & Sayings

No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen — Jorge Luis Borges

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion. — Kate Atkinson

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have. — Lenny Kravitz

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung! — Stonewall Jackson

A little madness shows the way to happiness.
A little kindness can heal the sadness. — Debasish Mridha

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't. — Craig Ferguson

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure. — Clay Shirky

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies. — E.W. Howe

I can't concentrate in flats. I could go to the gym if I wore flats, I'd love to go to the gym, but I just can't get my head around the footwear. — Victoria Beckham

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations. — Vladimir Nabokov

I realized with horror that I'd left my thesaurus in English class, and so wouldn't be able to describe their beauty in suitably poetic terms, but let me tell you, they were smokin' hot and no bullshit. — Stephfordy Mayo