Schelin Signs Quotes & Sayings

Some women were talking about how I put out. And that's just not that case. I don't put out - unless I'm asked very, very politely, and that's not putting out, that's just giving in. — Kristen Schaal

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans? — Michel Faber

After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky. — Ronit Roy

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. — Eugene O'Neill

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over. — Rebecca Solnit

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable. — Claire Danes

To sentimentalise something is to look only at the emotion in it and at the emotion it stirs in us rather than at the reality of it, which we are always tempted not to look at because reality, truth, silence are all what we are not much good at and avoid when we can. To sentimentalise something is to savour rather than to suffer the sadness of it, is to sigh over the prettiness of it rather than to tremble at the beauty of it, which may make fearsome demands of us or pose fearsome threats. — Frederick Buechner

I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge — Douglas Preston

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically. — Robert Ludlum

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart. — Andrew VanWyngarden

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. — Lord John Russell

Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door.
Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed. — Liz Kessler

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either. — Vanessa Paradis

A ballsy killer with the body of a goddess and the mouth of a sailor - in his eyes, that was perfection. — Bethany K. Lovell