Sapienza Howard Quotes & Sayings

The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her he had claimed her somehow, already made her his own. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that. — Nicholas Hoult

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three. — Ben Aaronovitch

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free. — Francois Rabelais

Kismet is closing."
"What's Kismet?"
"Fate," he says.
"What?"
"The name of the cafe. — Stephanie Perkins

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition. — J. Budziszewski

In my view, difficult poetry is the most democratic, because you are doing your audience the honour of supposing that they are intelligent human beings. So much of the populist poetry of today treats people as if they were fools. And that particular aspect, and the aspect of the forgetting of a tradition, go together. — Geoffrey Hill

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. — K. Eric Drexler