Redcarpet Markdown Quotes & Sayings

Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of — Lauren Beukes

Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water? — Ron Paul

I never know what I'm going to want to curl up in bed with." I shrug.
"How about a man?" she retorts. — Alexandra Potter

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that - the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.
[Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957] — William Faulkner

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. — Confucius

I had forgotten about the sword in all of the excitement of almost burning alive. — Courtney Cole

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one. — Grantland Rice

It struck me that my backside was my best asset and that keeping it hidden would be like Oedipus pulling out his eyes so that he couldn't see the errors of the past. — Chloe Thurlow