Saltwater Taffy Quotes & Sayings

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life. — R. Bosworth Smith

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. — Kathryn Davis

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives. — Jean Kerr

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere. — Michael Bond

Laurie's going to have a mighty easy life all right.
Annie Laurie McShane! She'll never have the hard times we had, will she?
No. And she'll never have the fun we had, either.
"Gosh! We did have fun, didn't we, Neeley?"
Yeah!
Poor Laurie, said Francie pityingly. — Betty Smith

My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness. — Anton Chekhov

It seemed right to do it this way, because the rite of passage is a magic corridor and so we always provide an aisle - it's what you walk down when you get married, what they carry you down when you get buried. Our corridor was those twin rails, and we walked between them, just bopping along toward whatever this was supposed to mean. — Stephen King

So, to start with, you might be wondering how this chick with a monkey on her back about the size
of King Kong is running about staking nasties and whatnot. Well, truth be told, I've been stretching the
truth like it was a big handful of raspberry-flavored saltwater taffy. — Kathleen Tierney

Do as they bid you ... but in your heart, remember who and what you are. — George R R Martin

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
— Pierre Corneille

I keep staring at the bag in Mrs. Parks's hand: yellows, greens, blues, whites, pastel colors so soft they look as if they have faded in the sea. The washed colors of the sea and sleep. Pajama colors. The colors of baby clothes. In my nose is the smell of my brothers' heads after they are born. Maybe this is why people making journeys buy saltwater taffy. It gives you the lovely dreamy sense that you can start all over again from the beginning. — Polly Horvath

We walked on the beach, fed blue corn ships to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy and all the other free samples my mom brought home from work.
I guess I should explain the blue food.
See, Gabe had once told my mom there was no such thing. They had this fight, which seemed like a really small thing at the time. But ever since, my mom went out of her way to eat blue. She baked blue birthday cakes. She mixed blueberry smoothies. She bought blue-corn tortilla chips and brought home blue candy from the shop. — Rick Riordan

Adolf introduces Fascism to Germany, spreads war throughout Europe, murders millions in concentration camps - but he's a strict vegetarian and loves his dog. Tossing in a touching scene with his German shepherd Blondie and a dish of lentils won't make Hitler's character 'balanced.' Hitler's character isn't balanced. — Howard Mittelmark

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work. — Robin Lee Hatcher

Camille's rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees. — Erik Larson

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me. — Graham Nash