Putative Def Quotes & Sayings

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible. — John Adams Gilmer

That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing! — Terry Pratchett

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards. — Mohamed ElBaradei

In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.' — Conan O'Brien

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times. — Kim Young-ha

He unrolls names like a splendid carpet. — James Salter

I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of the best times in our lives together. — Charlie Simpson

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things. — Anne Bancroft

Risk is the twin of reward. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Will was dead, but Missouri Ann was going to have a baby. Birth and death were God's way, she told herself. Joy and sorrow were joined together. — Sandra Dallas

My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself. — Miranda July

Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief. — Liane Moriarty