Reeking Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse. — Saru Singhal

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character]. — William Lyon Phelps

both practicing restraint. — Robert B. Parker

It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense. — Elaine Morgan

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong. — Al Leiter

I aggressively run into things, back up into things, have no depth perception, often forget which buttons and knobs do what, and am easily distracted. But enough about my sex life! Back to my driving skills! — Tyler Oakley

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science. — George W. Bush

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours. — P.G. Wodehouse

I was told by my mother at the age of five that I was going to be a doctor, and that was the end of the conversation. I was presented with a toy stethoscope and told to learn how to use it. — Chris Adrian

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people.
Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us.
I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person. — Charlaine Harris

We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out. — Elisabeth Elliot

Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless. — Dave Barry

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that. — Alan Rickman