Returnable Quotes & Sayings

Great. I looked at the two identical bottles of rug detergent on the back porch. One was new and returnable. One was six months old and half empty. But which was which? I couldn't tell! They were opaque. I knew that word because I was in the Gifted Program, but it didn't help me in that split second ... I would never be placed in the Common Sense Program. — Tina Fey

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. — Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale. — Salman Rushdie

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable. — Quentin Crisp

Life ... is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks in every circumstance, we forego the logic and reason which asks, "Why me?" and open our hearts and learn to trust. Every obstacle becomes an occasion for rejoicing. We put love at the center of our universe and we are lifted beyond the world of limitation, doubt, and fear into the realm of love, hope, and eternal happiness. — Robert Scheid

Working good brings me closer to the man in the mirror ... — Brahmananda Patra

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? — James Wolcott

If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels. — D. B. Sweeney

Joshua to Angela: "Please, Angela, do it for me ... and you never know you just might have fun."
She looked at him warily. "I find that highly doubtful, Josh."
"Well how will you know unless you actually try it?"
"I just know. Do you have to drink a hot fish milkshake to know you aren't going to like it?" She asked. — Patti Roberts

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one. — Carolyn Crane

Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved ... The precise theory has never been proved at all. However, like relativity, it is accepted on faith ... On getting down to actual details, difficulties begin. — Anthony Standen

But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose. — Rick Riordan

In truth, Jude suspected that Danny had no particular musical preferences, no strong likes or dislikes, and that the radio was just background sound, the auditory equivalent of wallpaper. — Joe Hill

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. — Alfred North Whitehead

You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga. — Bikram Choudhury

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs. — Bert Hardy

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced. — Margaret Halsey

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies. — Phil Cousineau

Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle. — Linda Sunshine