Rescrubbed Quotes & Sayings

As Miss Golightly was saying, before she was so rudely interrupted ... — Truman Capote

The Thirties dreamed white marble and slip-stream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. — William Gibson

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment. — Richard Paul Evans

Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. — Janet Evanovich

ow do I know I can trust you?' said the urchin. 'I don't know,' said Ridcully. 'The subtle workings of the brain are a mystery to me, too. But I'm glad that is your belief. — Terry Pratchett

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition. — Natasha Lyonne

Faith in God's promises is the only way to find peace in the midst of trouble. "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You" (26:3 NKJV). — Warren W. Wiersbe

But then again, he was 95. Who gave a flying fuck? — Craig Caudill

I am, I believe, a young man on whom a grand joke is being played, fated to live one century, perhaps a second, perhaps a third, only to be scrubbed and rescrubbed from the record, to exit, if I ever do, as if I'd never existed at all. — Daniel Kraus

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live. — Harry G. Frankfurt

In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it. — Ayelet Waldman

Love's creed is separate from all religions. — Rumi

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, truest love can turn into truest nemesis. — Nikhil Kushwaha