Retrasib Quotes & Sayings

Humourists lead ... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats. — James Thurber

The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the salt of her tears. — George R R Martin

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless. — Rick McCallum

In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers; — Thomas Browne

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. — Jorge Luis Borges

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities — Erik Weihenmayer

You're not making a whole lot of sense."
"I am in my head," I mutter. What does he need me to do here? Stand up on the table and yell, "Hello! Hot guy! I'm into you! — Allison Rushby

A comfortable quiet falls over us. Really comfortable, like we've lain on filthy floors corpselike together for several lifetimes now. — Jandy Nelson

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me. — Bill Parcells

And as soon as I thought this, I tried to think of something else quickly. Because we were so close that I felt sometimes like she could read my mind. — Augusten Burroughs

You may exist in
this world
but I exist too
and I will not yield — Matthew Quick

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political. — Brigitte Bardot

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with? — Marco Rubio

Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the time. To inhabit your own contentment is to be wholly present, with no orbiting satellite to take clinical readings of the state of the planet. Conventionally, you grow conscious of happiness at the very point that it begins to elude you. When not misused to talk yourself into something - when not a lie - the h-word is a classification applied in retrospect. It is a bracketing assessment, a label only decisively pasted onto an era once it is over. — Lionel Shriver