Riffing Slang Quotes & Sayings

It was funny, the Gray Man thought, how humorous she always appeared, how that smile was always just a moment away from her lips. You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs. And here was the other trick: Maura was not faking her happiness. She was both very happy and very sad. — Maggie Stiefvater

And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again ... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now ... — John Geddes

We are not always funny, but like a life with Fun — Jan Jansen

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead. — Gabriel Vahanian

When you're dead you're dead. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Most people spend their whole lives waging war - against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all.
from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS — Germaine Shames

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself. — Mary Karr

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it. — Sergio Aragones

An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. — Valentino Garavani

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso

The truth is that there are no "masters" in the spiritual life. Mature and wise teachers, yes. But fundamentally we are all beginners receiving and giving on our knees before God and with open hands before one another. In this business no one "lords it over" another. Pay — Richard J. Foster

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. — Winston Churchill

Words fail us. They are like keys: they open, but they also shut. When we were small and could hardly raise ourselves from the floor, we curled our fingers around the fingers of mother and father, and we looked into their faces as they looked into ours. Where is the word for that? — Anthony Esolen