Sadderday Quotes & Sayings

Nice prong," said Sophronia after a moment.
Felix grinned and waggled his eyebrows lasciviously. "Thank you for saying so."
Sophronia was instantly suspicious. "You mean that isn't a ballistic exploding steam missile fire prong?"
"No such thing, my dear Ria, but it certainly sounds wicked, doesn't it?"
"Then what is it?"
He handed the evil-looking object over. "Ah, a portable boot-blackening apparatus with pressure-controlled particulate emissions, and attached accoutrement to achieve the highest possible shine. For the stylish gentleman on the go. — Gail Carriger

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. — Jeff Bridges

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life. — Tracy Kidder

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'. — Jan Karon

But shit, I've never been that complicated. Physical pain gets a physical response. Everything else is nobody's fucking business. — Lisa Henry

Be more than a person she would settle for ... be a person she would yearn for. — Steve Maraboli

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time. — Jim Cantalupo

Unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere. — Wallace Stevens

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. — John Smith

I mean no disrespect to the gentlemen of the bench, but it is no secret that our system of justice, praised throughout Europe for its severity and its swiftness, is a terrible and fearful thing, and no man, guilty or innocent, wishes to stand before it. — David Liss

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world. — Sharon Stone

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure. — Sam Waterston

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word. — Martin Luther