Roena May Cleary Quotes & Sayings

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing. — Jeanette Winterson

We like to be deceived. — Blaise Pascal

What?!" Auburn says into the phone. "What kind of secret phrase is 'pencil dick'? — Colleen Hoover

I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life. — Austin Grossman

--- she says it's a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don't know why they do 'em."
from the novella Christopher O'Connor's Romances — George Hammond

I'm not a psychopath-I'm wearing a tie! — Seth Godin

What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything. — Albert Brooks

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are. — Romesh Gunesekera

You should put scent where you like to be kissed. — Catherine Deneuve

Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page. — Jane Hirshfield

It's impossible to keep someone safe. — Carrie Arcos

One minute, I was saying, "Hello, Mr. Bunny!" and smiling at its sweet little face and funny floppy ears. The next, the fucker savaged me. — John Cleese

Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever. — Jenny Lawson

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy. — Megan Whalen Turner

It was all very purposeful and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as always, they were sorry for each other for the wrong things at the wrong time ... — F Scott Fitzgerald