Savories For Tea Quotes & Sayings

With Tommy, gift-giving is an art form. Whatever he bestows on you is more likely than not going to be something absurd and cheap and tacky, but the way he offers it always makes you feel as if you were receiving an oblation. I don't know how he does it. It's a bizarre kind of magic; he somehow makes you believe that the useless thing in his outstretched hands is actually a chunk of his heart that he's torn out, just for you. He holds it up for your inspection, and it glows between his fingers like a candle in a cave. And as if that weren't enough, he makes it absolutely clear that he doesn't want anything in return, not even your gratitude, so all you can do is stand there with a stupefied look on your face and humbly accept what he's vouchsafing you. — Bart Yates

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim

I remembered once thinking how much it said about a man whether he liked to fuck a woman in the pussy or in the ass. — Skye Warren

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For ... being you.'
'I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice
I hardly ever get it wrong these days. — Brandon Sanderson

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else. — Steven R. McQueen

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse. — Robert K. Massie

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. — Nikola Tesla

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349 — Oscar Wilde

Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old. — Stephen Colbert

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short
not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. — Lewis Carroll

I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa, a teenager in Michigan, later wrote to me, "The sad thing is, after a while, it starts to feel like home". It does, doesn't it? — Brent Runyon

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent. — John Nolte

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully. — Henry Ford

a thin scraggle of beard, gave Jon and Sam a cool look. He had been one of Alliser Thorne's henchmen, and had no love for — George R R Martin

Haven't shed a single tear, but I'm hurtin' down inside. — Capital STEEZ