Roslakovs Quotes & Sayings

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. — Lucian Freud

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet. — Robert Ballard

Why couldn't it belong to him anymore? Why couldn't he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away. — Ann Brashares

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe

Lucas seemed to have realized our prediciment at the same moment I had. "I haven't got my credit card with me. Kinda left in a hurry. We just spent the only cash I had in my pocket." Too-bright signs from the few open stores made mee squint. "We'd have been better off with a slingshot and Oreos. — Claudia Gray

Americans are pushy, obnoxious, neurotic, crass - anything and everything - the full catastrophe as our friend Zorba might say. Canadians are none of that. The way you might fear a cow sitting down in the middle of the street during rush hour, that's how I fear Canadians. To Canadians, everyone is equal. Joni Mitchell is interchangeable with a secretary at open-mic night. Frank Gehry is no greater than a hack pumping out McMansions on AutoCAD. John Candy is no funnier than Uncle Lou when he gets a couple of beers in him. No wonder the only Canadians anyone's ever heard of are the ones who have gotten the hell out. Anyone with talent who stayed would be flattened under an avalanche of equality. The thing Canadians don't understand is that some people are extraordinary and should be treated as such. — Maria Semple

Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory. — Jesse Ball

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble. — John Dufresne

I like the Walrus best,' said Alice: 'because you see he was a little sorry for the poor oysters.'

'He ate more than the Carpenter, though,' said Tweedledee. 'You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise.'

'That was mean!' Alice said indignantly. 'Then I like the Carpenter best--if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus.'

'But he ate as many as he could get,' said Tweedledum.

This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, 'Well! They were both very unpleasant characters-- — Lewis Carroll

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. — Shirley Maclaine

With us, it'll never be just sex. — Kelley R. Martin

Has anyone ever told you you're sexy as hell when you're mathematizing? — Kresley Cole

It's important to me to say what I really mean. — Christopher Reeve

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire? — Gustave Flaubert

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest bitch of all? — Sara Humphreys