Ribbon Yarn Quotes & Sayings

A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back. — Matthew Diamond

Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate. — Michel Houellebecq

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man. — Chanakya

Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater. — Rick Riordan

The prevailing view that Smith criticized was mercantilism, which held that wealth consisted of the stock of precious metals in a country. — Edd S. Noell

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it. — Juliette Binoche

It's good to see you girls spending time together," she says. "It's good to have a life that passes the Bechdel test. — Rainbow Rowell