Restraight Quotes & Sayings

Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams. — Mike Norton

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one. — Quintilian

For once, I'll be proud to be in the shadows. — Lydia Kang

Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama are subtly infused with facts, altering the truth in a similar way to how dramatists twist true stories to create greater excitement. — Lance Morcan

God has really blessed me. He could've allowed me to keep playing, but instead he saved my life. — Isaiah Austin

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year — Karan Johar

Angels don't exist.
Flawless skin, perfect hair, flowing white robes, all topped off with an adorable set of fluffy pink wings. Yeah. If you see that wandering around, you've probably stumbled onto the set of a Victoria's Secret catalog shoot. Prepare to get your butt kicked by security. — Cecily White

Nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for
Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected.
Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one's home universe, or as a longing for versions of one's self that one will never, and can never know. — Charles Yu

It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau — Brian P. Moran

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who. — Ralph Peters

She hands him his coffee; crosses to the doorway; motes of dust flutter nervously in her wake. — Judith Guest

A Dominie in Gray
Put gently up the evening Bars
And led the flock away — Emily Dickinson

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life. — William Carlos Williams

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie. — Callie Khouri