Regex Replace Curly Quotes & Sayings

He gives me all his numbers and writes mine down on a tram ticket. I am listening hard, but he doesn't say I'll call you. — Toni Jordan

We found that human cultures pass through phases, each culture in its own time. As the culture ages and begins to lose its objectives, conflict arises within it between those who wish to cast it off and set up a new culture-pattern, and those who wish to retain the old with as little change as possible. "At this point, a great danger appears. The conflict within threatens to engulf the society in self-war, group against group. The vital traditions may be lost - not merely altered or reformed, but completely destroyed in this period of chaos and anarchy. We have found many such examples in the history of mankind. "It is necessary for this hatred within the culture to be directed outward, toward an external group, so that the culture itself may survive its crisis. War is the result. War, to a logical mind, is absurd. But in terms of human needs, it plays a vital role. And it will continue to until Man has grown up enough so that no hatred lies within him. — Philip K. Dick

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic. — Marissa Mayer

Failure wasn't an option for those who have success today! — Mary Rodwell

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference. — John Prendergast

In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life. — Debasish Mridha

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined. — Mary Catherine Bateson

As he went down the stairs, he even stopped short, two or three times, as though suddenly struck by some thought. When he was in the street he cried out, "Oh, God, how loathsome it all is! and can I, can I possibly ... . No, it's nonsense, it's rubbish!" he added resolutely. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show. — Robert Kazinsky

Full circle. The beginning and the end. — Kami Garcia

And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac. — Lemony Snicket

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. — Mark Twain

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?

~Jack or The Submission — Eugene Ionesco