Referable Quotes & Sayings

Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?"
"Still old and blind," she snarled.
"And charming," Nikolai drawled. "Never forget charming."
"Whelp."
"Hag."
"What do you want, pest? — Leigh Bardugo

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007. — Russell Pearce

I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary. — Jason E. Hodges

There's nothing like a good ol' film light in a fogged up studio. — Harald Zwart

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes. — Kathleen Quinlan

The Holy Bible is the greatest book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This faith [in majoritarian democracy] may prevent one from recognizing that the more numerous the people are whom one tries to "represent" through the legislative process and the more numerous the matters in which one tries to represent them, the less the word "representation" has a meaning referable to the actual will of actual people other than that of the persons named as their "representatives. — Bruno Leoni

I think it is best to know what you are and make peace with it. — Sarah McCarry

I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time. — Lotic

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

~Message to the House of Representatives, 3 December 1793 — George Washington

Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores. — Martin Amis

the toilet is an intimacy
only shared with parents when you are young
and once again when they are older
and with lovers when say on a Sunday
morning stretching into the bathroom
you wake to the sound of stream into bowl
and go to hug the naked body
stood with its back to you and kiss the neck
and taste the whole of the night on there
and smell the morning's pale yellow loss
and take the whole of him in your hand
and feel the water moving through him
and knowing that this is love the prone flesh
what we expel from the body and what we let inside — Andrew McMillan

I was 17 years old when I built the first store ... A very simple, basic store with a basic counter - not very much equipment, all purchased second-hand. And the menu was very simple. — Fred DeLuca

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life. — Ezra Koenig

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. — Mathis Wackernagel

In another dimension, we just met. — Doug Weller