Purpling Under Fingernails Quotes & Sayings

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee. — Elizabeth Bowen

If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency. — Bob Corker

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. — Vernor Vinge

The non-dating type? What kind of type is that? A little mushroom who sits at home in a semidark room growing moss? — Jenny Han

Death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, "Where's my clean socks?," no one answers. — Terry Pratchett

I have an issue with dogs - I can't pick up after them. It's nothing personal; it just makes me feel like a servant. — Ned Vizzini

Never let anyone silence your voice. — Jurnee Smollett

The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher? — P.G. Wodehouse

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah. — Michael O'Donoghue

That evening, the old lady sat in the best place for talking: in the kitchen, on the wooden bench beside the oven. This oven was a massive affair built of fired clay, taller than a man and large enough that all four of Pyotr Vladimirovich's children could have fit easily inside. — Katherine Arden

It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma. — Todd Farmer

Men plan. Fate Laughs. — Jim Butcher

At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head. — F Scott Fitzgerald