Rerun Consignment Quotes & Sayings

The queen-size bed has a wooden frame and a dark-orange duvet cover and pillows. The bedside tables on both sides are identically stocked: three books, a lamp and a glasses case. I wonder if this allows my parents to swap sides during the night. I turn on one of the lamps, lighting the room like a sexy library. — Joe Dunthorne

I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay. Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever. — George Borrow

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not. — Thomas Jefferson

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all. — George Orwell

Prayer is a communication to a divine being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it. — P.L. Travers

When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it. — Jared Spool

There is a nice Victorian reticence in denying the probability of a miserable prelude to mortality, and it is what everyone wants to hear. But if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, our our doctos, have done wrong. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Scientists say over the next hundred years, the coast of California will sink almost five feet. So the presidential candidates need to do something. Mitt Romney is conflicted. On one hand, he denies that global warming exists. But if California is under water, he would definitely win the next election. — Craig Ferguson

In prayer you gain your strength - the power to gird yourself with armor that extinguishes every weapon your enemy wields. — Priscilla Shirer

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin

When it comes to relationships; sometimes you get it right, and sometimes it gets you right. — R.L. Byrd