Puppet Augeas Double Quotes & Sayings

The war has put its skeleton fingers even into our pockets. (pg:40) — Virginia Woolf

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. — Walter Legge

He is nothing. I tell myself this, so that I will not hope for him. I am not allowed to hope. I am a forbidden wish of my own. — Jessica Khoury

Belgium is a country with a split personality. — Nicholas Royle

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications. — Michael Crichton

When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock. — Margaret Thatcher

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.' — Evel Knievel

Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions. — Edward Gibbon

He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling, teeth and all. Had she ever seen him smile before? No, she realized, because right now, it was such a jarring thing to witness that for a moment it felt as though she was sharing the car with a stranger. — Kelly Creagh

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. — Anonymous

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character. — Laurie Faria Stolarz

The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ. — D. Todd Christofferson

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid. — William Golding

I have been driven demented in my career. — Lord Mountbatten