Retinerea Quotes & Sayings

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself. — Mark Strong

That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob. — Daniel Clowes

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world. — Ned Vizzini

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

There is nothing more powerful in the world than a naked woman. — Christie Watson

Mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending. — William Gibson

All peoples, clap your hands. Cry to God with shouts of joy! Ps 47 (46):2 — Anonymous

Certain things existed out of time. It was ten years ago, it was this morning. In that way the accident was like his mother's death. It did not recede so much as hover, waxing and waning at different intervals but always there. It happened in the past and it was always happening. It happened every single minute of the day. — Ann Patchett

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. — Van Morrison

[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defended when it produced such dreadful results and was advanced by such imperfect creatures? At least Julien did not see the desperate fate of the ruined lover as a nineteenth-century novelist or a poet might have done, recasting the tale to create some appealing romantic hero, dashed to pieces against the unyielding society that produced him. Rather, his initial opinion
held almost to the last
was of Olivier as a failure, ruined by a terible weakness. — Iain Pears

Shakti always said we should have a guy we wanted to keep shaving our legs for. I knew what she meant.
pg. 129 — Deb Caletti

Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life. — Mary Ann Glendon

Showing signs of weakness was a good way to get eaten. — Jayne Ann Krentz