Sarcastic Illusions Quotes & Sayings

You brought me here to admire the view?" I whisper. He nods, his expression serious.
"It's staggering, Christian. Thank you," I murmur, letting my eyes feast on it once more. He releases my hand.
"How would you like to look at it for the rest of your life?" he breathes. — E.L. James

You are what you practice, so what is it that you're practicing? — Chris Moore

Refusing to listen to him any longer, Julian backs up. "Whenever you realize working together is in Summer's best interest, come find me, Boy Scout. Until then, I'll just pretend you don't exist." Then he walks away.
Gage glares at Julian's retreating form. His hand scrapes through his hair as he fumes. A guttural roar of rage crawls up his throat, and he kicks the sand.
Damn him and his stupid logic. He's right. And Gage knows he's right. But that doesn't mean he has to like it. — Laura Kreitzer

When I have a really hot date at a show, I definitely make it a point to use her name. The girls really love that. — Dane Cook

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is. — Arnold Bennett

A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro. — Clive James

The real challenges that the country faces come from the winners, not the losers, of the new world. — Fareed Zakaria

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life. — Gregory Alan Isakov

It was the day my grandmother exploded. — Iain Banks

Few institutions are considered so universally to have failed as our schools, yet in spite of this dreary record a prescription of increased dosage is making its way to the national agenda. The specifics of this proposal: a) Schools should be open year-round, avoiding long summer holidays for children. b) Schools should extend from 9 to 5, not dismissing students in mid-afternoon as is currently the case. c) Schools should provide recreation, evening meals, and a variety of family services so that working-class parents will be free of the "burden" of their own children. The bottom line of these proposals is reduction of the damaging effects of "freedom" and "family" on a subject population. — John Taylor Gatto