Reminiscent Of Crossword Quotes & Sayings

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks. — Wilfred Thesiger

Either I'm ridiculously lucky or ridiculously unlucky, I just don't know which one. — Maija Haavisto

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on ... — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool. — Gautama Buddha

As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood. — Peter Cushing

May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours, — John O'Donohue

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. — Robert M. Pirsig

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. — Benjamin Franklin

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices — Virginia Woolf

When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus. — Luis Suarez

That happens in life sometimes, doesn't it? Something terrible happens and you think it's the worst thing ever and then it turns out to be the best. — Sarah Morgan

The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was that each person should understand the depth of his ignorance, there was no way that anybody could win. Plato — Karen Armstrong

If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time."
"I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin."
Just then my door creaked open.
Billy's expression turned to surprise.
"Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh ... we are making up lyrics to a song."
But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested.
"You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it."
"It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too. — Ellen Schreiber