Schacter Introducing Quotes & Sayings

The woman, one of those usually known as a good-time girl, was famous for the premature portliness which had earned her the nickname Boule de Suif. Small, round as a barrel, fat as butter and with fingers tightly jointed like strings of small sausages, her glowing skin and the enormous bosom which strained under the constraints of her dress - as well as her freshness, which was a delight to the eye - made her hugely desirable and much sought after. She had a rosy apple of a face, a peony bud about to burst into bloom. Out of it looked two magnificent dark eyes shaded by thick black lashes. Further down was a charming little mouth complete with invitingly moist lips and tiny, gleaming pearly-white teeth. She was said to possess a variety of other inestimable qualities. — Guy De Maupassant

My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms. — Isaac Newton

It is snowing and death bugs me
as stubborn as insomnia. — Anne Sexton

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches. — Daniel M. Gilbert

I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at. — Kate Williams

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.' — Sophie Turner

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university. — Stephen A. Schwarzman