Python String Escape Double Quotes & Sayings

Now, over the years I've been forced to conclude that most celebrations don't work. The more carefully planned a signal occasion, the more likely it will trickle by on a pale tide of dilute well-meaningness. Christmases, birthdays, award ceremonies, and weddings are swallowed by planning and preparation on the one side and cleaning up on the other, and almost never seem to have actually happened. — Lionel Shriver

When I taught, all my best students were women. — Zaha Hadid

If your milk is expired, you don't have enough time on your hands. There's always time for cereal. — C. Michael Powers

In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning. — Alexei Maxim Russell

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing. — Charlie Kimball

The dead did not call to me from the underworlds, but spoke to me from the rustling pine needles. They did not gaze down upon me from the skyworlds, but smiled up at me from a bead of dew trembling precariously upon a blade of grass. They told me I have never been alone. Not for one instant. Every soul is a thread in the fabric of the world. All I must do to see my relatives is gaze into the shining water that sleeps, — Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both. — James Baldwin

The sidewalk was all cracked and wavy, like little hills, and the weeds pushed their way up through the cement. I had to roller-skate there anyway, because they wouldn't let me out of their sight, and they could watch me from the swing on the front porch of the old house. It was hard to skate there, and I kept falling down and getting sores on my knees...Sometimes, when they left me alone in 102 to go to the store, I'd turn on the radio and dance all around the room. I'd get on the furniture and jump from couch to the bed to the chair, leaping and twirling the whole time. — Carol Burnett

and they treated each other with the familiarity of a husband and wife who had hidden so many things in this life that there was almost nothing left for them to say to each other. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Laura's upbringing made her wonder for a moment whether it was quite respectful of a workman to talk to her of bangs slap in the eye. But she did quite follow him. — Katherine Mansfield

To tell or not to tell? — Suzanne Collins

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves. — Bijou Phillips

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea. — E.E. Evans-Pritchard

I know from experience that you spend your tears on the big hurts, not the little day-to-day jabs." -Star — Mark Delaney