Scrabbles Only Quotes & Sayings

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. — Samuel Johnson

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. — Alexander Alekhine

Our bodies were printed as blank pages
to be filled with the ink of our hearts — Michael Biondi

Those who cannot love do not understand it — Cassandra Clare

Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted. — Jane Austen

Mr. Crepsley was every bit as composed as he'd sworn he would be. He didn't even shed a tear when the funeral litter was set alight. It was only later, when he was alone in his cell, that he wept loudly, and his cries echoed through the corridors and the tunnels of Vampire Mountain, far in the cold, lonely dawn. — Darren Shan

I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none. — Epictetus

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel. — Malcolm D. Lee

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life. — Barbara Ehrenreich

'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation. — Colin Trevorrow